Crossword of Clay

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Across
  1. 2. To scratch the surface. Used with slip to join moist clay pieces together.
  2. 7. A plaster form which is used to support wet clay in the early stages of construction.
  3. 12. The part of a pot that sits on the floor or table.
  4. 13. Stage of clay between plastic and bone dry.
  5. 14. Clay that has been fired once, unglazed.
  6. 15. Colored slip painted onto bisque or greenware.
  7. 17. Stage of clay that is very soft and workable.
  8. 20. A decoration method when lines are drawn or cut into the clay surface.
  9. 22. To decorate by pressing forms into wet clay.
  10. 23. A strongly raised or deeply carved pattern.
  11. 24. Flat slabs of clay are pressed into forms.
  12. 27. Wet clay is watered down and poured into a mold.
  13. 30. A rotating device, used to sit at and make round pottery forms.
  14. 33. Clay that has become permanently hard after being heated in the kiln.
  15. 34. A plaster or bisque clay shape from which a clay form can be copied.
Down
  1. 1. A long piece of wire with two wood handles used to slice blocks of clay.
  2. 3. Unfired pottery that is bone dry, a stage in which clay forms are the most fragile.
  3. 4. Clay mixed with water to a mayonnaise consistency. Used in casting and decoration.
  4. 5. Clay tool used to score and poke tiny holes in wet clay.
  5. 6. Tool used for scooping out clay.
  6. 8. A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery.
  7. 9. A method of kneading clay, to make it even and work out bubbles.
  8. 10. Type of tool made of plastic or wood, used to shape and form wet clay.
  9. 11. The main part of a pot or vase.
  10. 14. Completely air dried clay. Unfired clay.
  11. 16. Clay that will be fired to a lower temperature in the kiln.
  12. 18. A method of manipulating clay with your fingers in your palm to a hollow shape.
  13. 19. Methods of building clay forms using only hands and simple tools.
  14. 21. The method of working with clay on a potter’s wheel.
  15. 24. The opening near the top of a pot.
  16. 25. Clay that has glaze or underglaze applied and has been fired a second time.
  17. 26. Tool used to trim rough edges of clay before firing.
  18. 28. A method of decorating by stamping into a clay surface.
  19. 29. The narrow part of a pot under the mouth.
  20. 31. Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
  21. 32. Attached piece of clay used to hold or pick up the pot.