Ceramics Vocabulary

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