Ceramics Vocabulary

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