Clay Vocabulary
Clay that is made with your hands.
What is a hand-built?
The material is made of dirt and water. It can be molded into any form.
What is clay?
A bowl made by pinching the clay.
What is a Pinch Pot?
The tool used to make a slab flat.
What is a rolling pin?
The S that is missing...Score, Slip, Stick, and ...
What is Smooth?
Pottery that is made on a spinning circle.
What is wheel thrown or pottery wheel?
Clay that is dry and has not been fired.
What is bone dry clay?
A long, thin rope of clay by rolling with your hands.
What is a coil?
This tool cuts slab into a specific shape.
What is a cookie cutter?
A special oven for firing clay at high temperatures.
What is a Kiln?
Pushing clay so that all the air is out and the clay is usable again.
What is wedging?
What is bisqueware or biscuit ware?
A flat pancake of clay made with your hands or a rolling pin.
What is a slab?
A sharp tool that cuts clay.
What is a palette knife?
The traditional paint used on pottery made of glass.
What is glaze?
Clay that can be reused.
What is recycled or reclaimed clay?
Clay that is somewhat dry and good for carving.
What is leather hard?
A piece of pottery that can hold something.
What is a vessel?
This tool uses a thin piece of metal and helps cut clay away from a big block.
What is a wire or a wire cutter?
When you join the clay together by scratching it.
What is scoring?
This is how hot a kiln can get in temperature.
What is 2000 degrees?
Clay that has been fired again with glaze.
What is glazeware?
This adds different types of marks on clay and shows how something feels.
What is Texture of Texture tools?
What is slip?