Vocabulary for Ceramic Arts

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  1. 3. Clay mixed with water with a mayonnaise consistency.
  2. 5. Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
  3. 6. Clay forced through a die to form uniform shaped
  4. 8. Manipulate clay with fingers in your palm to a hollow shape.
  5. 10. Casting Using of plaster molds to creating a form. Very commercial.
  6. 12. Creating ceramic shapes on the potter’s-wheel.
  7. 14. Stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip.
  8. 17. These long heavy needles set into wooden or metal handles are one of the most versatile tools in pottery.
  9. 19. creation of object out of clay
  10. 21. These tools are useful in cutting large lumps of clay, cleaning edges of cast pieces, and in removing thrown work from the potter's wheel.
  11. 24. A thick slip.
  12. 25. A plaster shape designed to pour slip cast into and let dry so the shape comes out as an exact replica of the mold.
  13. 26. Pyrometric. A pyramid composed of clay and glaze, made to melt and bend at specific temperatures.
  14. 27. A method of kneading clay to make it homogenous (evenly mixed).
  15. 28. Unfired pottery. Ready to be bisque fired.
  16. 29. Very high firing clay, white and translucent when fired.
  17. 31. To heat a clay object in a kiln to a specific temperature.
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  1. 1. Pottery which has been fired once, without glaze, and cannot be recycled.
  2. 2. A tool used to measure the diameter of round forms, used to get lids to fit just right.
  3. 4. A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery.
  4. 6. Fired at low temperature.
  5. 7. The firing of pottery to the point of glossification.
  6. 9. Probably the most common ones have two hardwood handles at either end.
  7. 11. The quality of clay which allows it to be manipulated into different shapes without cracking or breaking.
  8. 13. Creating a form with long, rope shaped, pieces of clay.
  9. 15. Completely air dried.
  10. 16. A small wheel turned by hand and used for finishing or decorating pottery.
  11. 18. Foot To keep the foot or bottom of a pot free from glaze by waxing or removing the glaze.
  12. 20. A furnace of refractory clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass.
  13. 22. A thin coating of glass.
  14. 23. Fired at high temperature.
  15. 29. is the ceramic act of making pottery wares
  16. 30. a natural material extracted from the earth’s crust
  17. 31. Base of a ceramic form.