Ceramics Vocabulary

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