Across
- 2. a furnace or oven made of ceramic used to fire or “heat” ceramic objects. A kiln may be electric, gas, or wood-burning and reach temperatures in excess of 2,500 degrees.
- 4. Kneading the clay with hands to force out air pockets and create a uniform texture.
- 5. Art of making objects out of clay to produce pottery and sculpture.
- 8. In ceramics, a thin, glossy coating is fired into pottery or vases.
- 9. a stage when the clay is workable, and pliable clay.
- 11. Pottery that has not been fired.
- 12. building a hand-building technique using rolling pins to roll out sheets of clay. These can be cut to form patterns and assemble into forms.
Down
- 1. Clay has been fired once in a kiln.
- 3. a hand-building technique that uses the fingers to gently pinch the clay to shape it into a bowl or other forms.
- 5. building hand building technique, using the hands to roll out and rope shaped lengths of clay. The coils may be any size but must be consistent with one another to build pottery. The coils are wrapped together on top of one another to form the sides of the pottery.
- 6. condition of raw clay where it has lost most of its moisture, but it is still able to be joined or carved.
- 7. Stiff, a sticky kind of earth that is used in ceramics. It is wet, and it hardens after drying or heating.
- 10. and Slip: a joining technique where the edges to be attached are roughened up and “glued” with liquid clay (slip).
- 12. watered-down clay (becomes soft and slippery).