Across
- 2. hand-made pottery produced from ancient times to the present
- 4. organic substances and additives can affect the plasticity of clays
- 6. building allows you to create forms with clay and your hands without using a throwing wheel
- 8. joining clay pieces together
- 9. glaze has been applied and fired for a second time
- 14. clay is rolled into thin sheets and manipulated into shapes
- 15. liquefied suspension of clay particles in water
- 16. fire process of firing unglazed clay to a low temperature to harden the clay
- 18. the process from the time the clay touches the wheel to the time the wheel is stopped
- 19. makes clay more pliable, ensures a uniform consistency and removes air pockets as well as small hard spots
Down
- 1. an oven or furnace that is used for hardening, burning,or drying something
- 3. American Indians that made building up sides of pots with successive rolls of clay
- 5. piece of handmade pottery
- 7. derives from Greek which translates as "of pottery" or for "pottery"
- 10. thin layer of liquid which is put on a piece of pottery and becomes hard and shiny
- 11. hand clay that is hard to bend but soft enough to be carved
- 12. has been fired for the first time
- 13. clay
- 17. dry clay which is ready to be fired
- 20. fire firing to temperature at which glaze melts to form glasslike surface