Hand Building Methods
Tools
Pottery Techniques
Firing Terminology
Surface Design
100
The process of turning a lump of clay in your hand and pressing it with your fingers and thumb.
What is the Pinch method of forming clay?
100
The knife that is used in the ceramics class to cut and smooth pottery.
What is the fettling knife?
100
Roughening the surface of two pieces of clay before they are attached to each other.
What is scoring?
100
This term refers to the process of heating the clay in the kiln.
What is fired?
100
A stable glaze choice that can be applied to greenware or bisque.
What is underglaze.
200
Laying thin ropes of clay on top of each other then smoothing them to create a flowing piece of pottery.
What is the coil method of forming pottery?
200
A portable turntable used to rotate pottery while it is being worked on.
What is the Banding wheel?
200
A guide cut from cardstock to hold next to the coil pottery while it is being constructed so that the pot will be symmetrical.
What is a template?
200
The final firing to vitrify the clay body and melt the glass covering onto the project.
What is Glaze Fire?
200
The technique of applying decoration with a small bottle of watered down clay.
What is slip-trailing?
300
Joining together leather hard sheets of clay to create an angular piece such as a box.
What is the Rigid slab method?
300
A wooden tool used to smooth clay together.
What is the modeling tool/ blending tool?
300
The process of cleaning the glaze off of the bottom of a pot before it is fired.
What is Dry foot?
300
The oven used to heat pottery to extreme temperatures.
What is the kiln?
300
What I use if I want stable details but less coats.
What is Concept Underglaze?
400
This is used to give added strength to additive details.
What is a support coil?
400
Used to slice large slabs of clay and to cut pots off of the potter's wheel.
What is the wire cutter?
400
The names given to a piece of pottery: the top, the middle and the bottom.
What is LIP, BODY, FOOT?
400
The first firing in which the water molecules in the clay are burned off and the clay is left hard but still porous.
What is bisque firing?
400
How you apply glaze to large areas.
What is dabbing?
500
The handbuilding technique in which an artist places a layer of plastic clay over a desired form they would like to replicate.
What is soft slab construction/ DRAPE MOLD?
500
This is used for carving a design into clay.
What is a loop tool?
500
Kneading clay to dispel air bubbles and to unify the moisture content and consistency of the clay body.
What is Wedging?
500
Firing in an electric kiln where sufficient oxygen is in the kiln atmosphere during firing.
What is Oxidation Firing?
500
It comes in a variety of surfaces and transparencies and is best for large areas of one color.
What is (regular)Glaze?
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