Ceramics Vocabulary

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