Introduction to Ceramics

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  1. 2. Moist and elastic to the touch; clay that is easily manipulated.
  2. 4. Wide, flat handheld tool used to shape, smooth, and/or scrape clay surfaces; usually wood, rubber, plastic, or metal, either rigid or flexible, with straight, curved, or profiled edge.
  3. 6. Construction processes that include pinching, coiling or building with slabs.
  4. 7. The crack formed where two pieces of clay are joined.
  5. 11. Scratching or roughing-up the clay surface; used in combination with brushed-on slip, scoring is a preparation step for joining two or more separate clay pieces together.
  6. 13. Ceramic material with glaze applied and fired a second time.
  7. 14. Clay is too firm to bend yet soft enough to carve. It is the consistency of cheddar cheese.
  8. 17. No visible moisture and no dampness to the touch. Clay is ready to be fired.
  9. 18. A pot that is formed by pinching with your fingers.
  10. 19. Colored slip or liquid stain applied to leather hard clay or bisque ware, then coated with a clear glaze.
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  1. 1. Clay that has been fired once and ready to be glazed, stained or painted.
  2. 3. Enclosed air spaces within clay that must be removed for they may cause ceramic work to explode or crack.
  3. 5. an earthy material that is plastic when moist but hard when fired, that is composed mainly of fine particles of hydrous aluminum silicates and other minerals.
  4. 8. Pottery is a type of ceramic, specifically containers made out of clay.
  5. 9. Rolled flat section of clay. Wet slabs can be draped over or into forms or rolled around cylindrical or square forms. Slabs may be cut into shapes and joined together using the score and slip method. This is most successful when slabs are dried to the leather-hard state.
  6. 10. an object that is made of clay and cured/hardened by heating it to a high temperature.
  7. 11. refers to the process of creating an object with moist clay, the time of drying out the object and the firing process from bisqueware through glazeware. Moist,leather hard, bone dry, bisqueware, & glazeware.
  8. 12. a glassy coating on the surface of ceramics: comprised of a mixture of powdered materials that often includes pre-melted glass.
  9. 15. Rolled, snake-like ropes of clay, joined together to build pots.
  10. 16. Finely ground clay particles mixed with water. Used for joining two pieces of clay.