Pottery Glossary

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Across
  1. 2. made by pressing the thumb into a ball of clay, and drawing the clay out into a pot by repeatedly squeezing the clay between the thumb and fingers
  2. 3. the process of baking and hardening pottery
  3. 4. Making scratches in pieces of clay to be joined together
  4. 7. which clay has lost moisture to evaporation, but has not yet completely hardened
  5. 11. common type of clay
  6. 12. A technique to make clay plastic and remove air pockets. The clay is thoroughly kneaded and cut before use in modeling or pottery
  7. 14. thin coating of minerals which produces a glassy transparent or colored coating on bisque ware
  8. 15. Long, snakelike ropes of clay that are used in making pottery
  9. 16. a special oven or furnace that can reach very high temperatures and is used to bake, or fire clay
Down
  1. 1. thoroughly room dried
  2. 2. what are fused during the firing process
  3. 5. a low-fire clay that is porous and not waterproof
  4. 6. unfired pottery
  5. 8. drying stage when clay can be easily manipulated
  6. 9. common type of clay
  7. 10. clay that has been fired once but has not been glazed
  8. 13. made by mixing clay with water