Ceramics Vocabulary

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