Ceramics Vocabulary

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