Clay Terms

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Across
  1. 3. A paint for clay, like a thin coating of glass.
  2. 5. The quality of clay which allows it to be manipulated into different shapes without cracking or breaking.
  3. 7. A furnace of clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass.
  4. 9. A method of kneading clay to make it ready to use - removing the air bubbles.
  5. 10. Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
  6. 11. pottery that has not been fired at all but is in a bone dry state.
Down
  1. 1. Completely air dried
  2. 2. Clay mixed with water, used in casting and decoration, or when joining two pieces of clay together
  3. 4. is scratching or roughing up the surface of leather-hard clay in preparation for joining pieces together.
  4. 6. Stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip.
  5. 8. Pottery which has been fired once, without glaze