Ceramics Vocabulary

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