Ceramics Vocabulary

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