Ceramics Vocabulary

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