Across
- 2. machine for mixing clay
- 5. the temperature at which clay becomes hard and durable
- 6. a thin coating of glass on pottery
- 8. unfired pottery
- 9. to heat clay to a specific temperature
- 11. a rubber or metal tool to help throw pottery forms
- 13. firing with reduced oxygen in the kiln
- 16. pressed or rolled flat sheets of clay
- 19. the quality of clay allowing it to be shaped without cracking or breaking
- 23. moving the clay to the middle of the wheel for throwing
- 24. refractory posts and shelves use4d for stacking a kiln
- 25. a melting agent causing silica to change to glass
Down
- 1. clay mixed with water to a mayonaise like consistency
- 3. fired clay ground to various mesh sizes
- 4. stage of clay between plastic and bone dry
- 7. keep the bottom of the pot free from glaze by using wax
- 10. low fired clay body between 1830 and 2010 F
- 12. rubbing the outside of a pot to make it shiny
- 14. a piece of clay rolled like a snake
- 15. alumina + silica + water
- 17. a furnace of refractory bricks
- 18. pottery fired once without glaze to a temperature below vitrification
- 20. the base of a ceramic form
- 21. a device with a rotating wheel heaqd used to make pottery
- 22. a flat disc of plastic affixed to the wheelhead with pins for throwing