Construction Types
What is a pot that is made by wrapping snake like pieces of clay on top of one another cylindrically?
A coiled pot
How do you make Slip?
Crush bone dry clay and then add water to it and mix to create a thick goop
How many coats of glaze do you need to paint on your bisqueware?
3 or 4
What is the quickest way to make a flat piece of clay in the pottery studio?
The Slab Roller
What is a pot make from a ball of clay pinched to create an opening and shape?
A pinch pot
What does leatherhard mean?
Clay that is hard/firm but still cold to the touch, the perfect stage for assembling slabs, refining details or carving
How can you add texture to pottery with a imprint that presses an image onto your clay?
stamp
A machine that can make coils is called
An extruder
What is a pot made on the pottery wheel?
Wheel thrown pottery
What is bisque?
Pottery that has been fired once and is now ready to be glazed.
Scraping away glaze from an unfired pot to create designs that reveal the clay surface underneath is called what?
Sgraffito
A rubber tipped tool that helps you smooth clay or finish edges
A shaper tool
What is a pot made first with a paper template then traced onto a flat piece of clay and assembled when leather-hard?
A Slab Vessel
What is greenware?
Clay that has been made into your finished shape but is not yet fully dried out, still cold to the touch
Using slip to create raised designs on the unfired pottery is called what?
Slip trailing
These tools can be wooden plastic or metal and are very useful on the wheel
Ribs
What is a pot made with a slab draped over a form?
A Drape Bowl
What is bone dry clay?
Clay that has been completely dried out is room temperature to the touch and ready to go in the kiln the first time, if crushed it is the perfect stage for making slip
What is the name of the tool that Mrs. Abbott places under pottery that has been glazed on the foot of the pot?
Stilt
Sometimes a ___________ knife is the only tool that can cut through leatherhard clay
Xacto knife