Pottery Vocab Words

2. dried and hardened enough to be trimmed or decorated with slip but not hard enough to be fired
3. clay that has been fired with a glass-like colored material
5. pots and other articles made from clay hardened by heat.
9. unglazed pottery
10. prepares the clay for optimal use
13. the technique of shaping round ceramics
15. the outstanding property of clay
17. the first firing
20. pottery-making technique that involves creating forms without a pottery wheel

1. a skill or dexterity exhibited by a person for creating an artistic work with hands
4. firing to temp at which glaze melts to form a glasslike surface
6. to scratch hatch marks on it as part of joining clay pieces together
7. an impervious layer or coating of a vitreous substance which has been fused to a ceramic body through firing.
8. a special kind of oven for firing pottery
11. unfired pottery
12. clay that is ready to be fired
14. a method of creating pottery
16. A construction technique in which the clay is pinched and manipulated with the fingers into the desired shape.
18. a technique in which clay is rolled into thin sheets and manipulated into shapes
19. a clay slurry used to produce pottery and other ceramic wares