Glazes
You paint glaze on what stage of clay?
Bisque
This method of building starts off with a ball that is pinched into the shape of a bowl or a half circle.
pinch pot
This tool is used to cut plastic clay
The wire cutter
The bottom of the pot, decorative and elevates the bottom surface of the pot.
What is the foot.
This slimy stage of clay is the first one.
slip
You must use how many coats of glaze?
3
coiling
This tool flattens clay with two pieces of canvas and a large wheel connecting to two rolling bars.
The Slab roller
Clay that is made into your finished shape but is not yet fully dried out, still cold to the touch.
What is greenware.
How does Mrs Abbott make slip?
First, she has to wait for the clay to become bone dry. Then she has to crush the clay into a powder. Then she adds water and then she blends it in the blender until it is as thick as a smoothie.
What must be set under your pottery, in the kiln, if you glaze the foot of your pot?
A stilt
This method includes two pieces of canvas and a large table with two metal rollers and a large wheel.
Slab
You use this tool to pull up the walls on the wheel
Plastic or wooden rib or sponge
Clay that is completely dried out, is room temperature to the touch, ready to go into the kiln.
What is Bone Dry clay.
Where can you find plastic clay?
Fresh out of the bag. Clay is usually purchased at this stage. Plastic clay is perfect for creating pottery with.
You can glue back together pottery by strategically placing glaze and refiring. True or false
True
This method uses a slab draped over a form
drape bowl
This large coil maker looks like a telescope but it is used in industrial pottery.
Coil Extruder
The necessary tools for this pottery activity include your hands, sponge, ribbon tool/loop tool, metal rib, plastic rib, or wooden rib.
Throwing on the wheel.
What does leatherhard mean?
Clay that is hard, firm but still cold, the perfect stage for assembling slabs, refining details and carving.
A bottle of glaze costs how many us dollars?
20.00 to 150.00
This method is made first with a paper template then traced onto a flat piece of clay and assembled when leather hard
Slab vessel
This tool is used to trim the pot on the pottery wheel.
Loop tool or ribbon tool
What are the necessary tools for throwing on the pottery wheel?
Bowl, water, rib, sponge, loop tool, ribbon tool, bat
What is bisque?
Pottery that has been fired once and is ready to glaze.