Ceramics Vocabulary

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