Across
- 5. The stage of clay when it has dried, has lost its plasticity but it is still wet to the touch; best stage for carving, adding handles and slip decoration
- 6. Ceramic that has gone through the first firing, maintains its porous state
- 7. The property of clay that allows it to change shape without tearing or breaking
- 8. A stage of the green-ware/unfired clay in which it has dried to the humidity in the air and is ready to undergo the first firing; a very passive stage of the clay, it cannot be repaired if broken
Down
- 1. Clay objects that permanently retain their shape after they have been heated to specific temperatures unfired pottery or sculpture
- 2. A glass coating fused to the surface of a ceramic piece
- 3. Fine grained earth materials formed by the decomposition of igneous rock; plastic when wet; strong when leather-hard; when exposed to red heat becomes denser and rock like. The chemical composition of clay is Al2O32SiO26H2O
- 4. Unfired pottery or sculpture