Ceramics Vocabulary

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