Ceramics Vocabulary

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