Ceramics Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Using a smooth object to polish the surface of leather hard clay
  2. 5. A support on which a clay slab is draped to shape as it stiffens
  3. 7. Kneading clay to eliminate air pockets and align clay particles
  4. 9. Slicing clay off to form many angles
  5. 10. A freshly rolled slab used to construct a clay object
  6. 11. A clay object reduction in size due to drying and firing
  7. 14. Material difficult to heat or melt
  8. 18. When a clay or glaze reaches its mature, hard glass-like quality
  9. 21. Clay suspended in water, used to join clay parts
  10. 23. The heating of glaze and clay to a specific temperature
  11. 24. Roughing up clay edges to be joined with slip
  12. 25. Clay that has been fired once, unglazed
  13. 27. Clay objects entirely constructed by hand
  14. 29. A method of handbuilding using ropes of clay
  15. 30. A clay's quality that allows it to change and maintain its shape
  16. 31. Oven for firing clay
  17. 32. Unfired pottery
Down
  1. 1. All moisture is gone, unfired
  2. 2. Used to gauge heatwork during kiln firings
  3. 4. Adding small flat or molded shapes to a clay object
  4. 6. Rolled out flattened clay
  5. 8. A protective kiln shelf coating
  6. 11. Carving or scraping though a layer of slip or glaze to the clay
  7. 12. Engraving a decoration into unfired clay
  8. 13. Stiffened clay that is still soft enough to carve and join
  9. 15. Pottey made by hand on a potter's wheel
  10. 16. Fired clay crushed into granules
  11. 17. Pouring liquefied clay in a hollow plaster mold to for a ceramic object
  12. 19. Cutting grooves into clay
  13. 20. Glass-like coating melted onto clay surface by heat
  14. 22. A method of forming clay using your thumb and fingers
  15. 26. Colored decoration applied before glazing
  16. 28. Tripod used to support glazeware during firing
  17. 29. Hand rolled, rope like pieces of clay