Across
- 1. Working the clay up and down in a cone shape to prepare for opening
- 3. Pottery that has been fired in the kiln once
- 5. Pressing hole into center with thumbs, down then outward to widen
- 7. The final stage of greenware dried to a completely dry state, ready to be fired
- 9. The use of the imagination, original ideas, making connections and creating
- 11. When glaze moves away from dust particles on pot creating cracks in glaze
- 12. Soaking bone-dry clay in water to be recycled
- 14. A furnace for firing clay
- 15. Persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success
- 17. Contraction of the clay in drying and firing stages as much as 18%
- 19. While the wheel spins, squeezing the clay inwards
- 20. Images and indirect suggestions used to express ideas; dove = peace
- 22. Fine glass materials suspended in water, used to add color and durability to pottery
- 23. The top opening of a pot
- 25. hard Firm yet moist clay, best clay stage to trim, carve, and join
Down
- 1. Locking elbows and calming the clay in the middle of the wheel before opening it
- 2. Clay that has not been fired
- 4. It’s between the mouth and foot of a ceramic work (in a vase, also called belly)
- 6. Sharp tool used to poke into clay to create a hole or to trim it
- 8. to prepare clay for applique by carving and adding slip
- 10. to remove excess clay
- 13. Pear shaped tool used to trim pots
- 15. A machine in which clay is mixed into a plastic state
- 16. A wide flat tool used to shape, smooth, or scrape clay surfaces- usually wood, rubber, plastic, or metal
- 18. A supporting ring at the base of a pot
- 21. walls: To move clay from the bottom to the top of a pot
- 24. Something three-dimensional and takes up space