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