Across
- 5. A way to remember if your walls are not too thick or too thin
- 7. Bone dry clay OR __________ is when a clay piece has completely dried, but has not yet been fired in the kiln
- 10. Sharp thin needle on a base
- 11. Used to help smooth clay and remove clay stuck on surfaces
- 15. Used to smooth, shape and connect pieces of clay together
- 17. A method that uses long thin ropes out of clay. These are stacked to create vessels of different shapes.
- 18. Creating a vessel by sticking your thumb in a ball of clay and gently pinching around the edges to form a large opening
- 19. You must ________ your clay before starting every project
Down
- 1. clay is clay that has dried enough to hold its shape if you put pressure on it, but still has a little moisture left in it
- 2. a thin wire connected by two pieces of wood
- 3. Clay that has undergone a first firing in the kiln
- 4. Clay that has been processed in a machine to have air bubbles and impurities removed.
- 6. Used for trimming, carving, and hollowing out clay pieces
- 8. clay that is in semi liquid form (1 of 6 stages)
- 9. A fine-grained silicate mineral made when rocks break down
- 11. Creating forms by cutting shapes out of thin sheets of clay and attaching them together
- 12. A clay oven that bakes finished creations at a very high temperature (over 2000 degrees)
- 13. Used for cutting, trimming, shaping, and more with clay
- 14. Clay in this stage is durable and waterproof
- 16. A special coating for clay that contains glass particles