Ceramics Vocabulary

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