Stages of Clay
Watered-down clay in a muddy form, used in joining pieces of clay and decorating.
What is Slip
objects made from clay and fired to a permanent form.
What is Ceramics
The type of clay we use in class, fired at a relatively low temperature and is porous after 1st firing.
What is Earthenware?
The base of a pot upon which it can stand but you do not glaze.
What is the foot?
Hand-building technique that involves squeezing the clay between fingers and thumb in the palm of your hand. Said to be the oldest pottery method.
What is Pinch Pot
Soft, workable clay that can be easily molded and formed without cracking or falling apart.
What is Plastic
A variety of earthy materials formed by the weathering of rocks, such as granite.
What is Clay
To scratch the surface of the clay; first step in joining two pieces together.
What is Scoring?
Describes pottery that has been designed and produced with a use in mind.
What is functional?
Kneading clay, forces out trapped air pickets, develops a uniform texture.
What is wedging?
Clay that has been transformed into ceramic material after being fired once. Ready to be glazed, stained or painted.
What is Bisqueware
3 even layers of a glassy crystal fused to the surface; provides a surface imperious to liquids and easy to clean. It can be smooth or textured, shiny or matt.
What is Glaze?
The most important thing used in cleaning your tools, table, canvas boards, potter's wheel, floor and everything in the ceramics room.
What is Water?
When working with clay it is important to keep at a plastic to leather-hard stage by doing what?
What is cover unused clay and projects in air tight plastic.
Clay rolled out to a flat, even thickness and cut into shapes, best if used at leather-hard stage.
What is Slab
Clay that has hardened slightly making it ideal for carving and building tall slab constructions.
What is Leather-hard?
What are two of the reasons a project blows up in the kiln.
What is moisture, too thick, too thin, and air pickets or bubbles?
Your clay projects can be no thicker than what?
What is Thumb?
How can you tell if there is moisture in clay, and therefore cannot be fired yet?
What is it is cold to the touch.
A method of forming pottery by building up the walls with rope-like rolls of clay and attaching them one on top of another.
What is Coil Building
Fired a second time with a glaze applied, cannot be recycled.
What is Glazeware
What stage must your clay be in to fire?
What is Bone dry.
If an object is thicker than your thumb, what must be done so it won't explode in the kiln?
What is hollowed out?
A furnace made of refractory clay materials that is used to fire ceramics.
What is a Kiln?
Forming pottery on a potter's wheel.
What is throwing?