Ceramics Vocabulary

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