Ceramics Vocabulary

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