Tools
The tool that cuts the clay.
What is a Wire Tool?
Clay is made up of Alumina, ______________, and water.
What is Silica?
A pot made by pinching the clay between your thumb and fingers.
What is a Pinch Pot?
A glossy “glass-like” coating that is painted on a fired piece of clay.
What is a ceramic Glaze or Over Glaze?
Process used to prepare a piece of pottery on the potter’s wheel.
What is Centering?
This tool incises clay and has a sharp point.
What is a Pin Tool or Needle Tool?
Clay that has not been fired.
What is Greenware?
A pot made by rolling clay into rope-like strips.
What is a Coil Pot?
The name for the liquid clay with colorful pigments that produces a matte-finished color on the clay when fired. This can be painted on the clay before or after the clay is fired.
What is Underglaze?
This process is necessary in order to attach two pieces of clay together!
What is Scoring or “Slip and Score”?
These help to lift pots off of the wheel.
What are Pot Lifters?
Clay that has been fired.
What is Bisque-ware or Bisque?
Clay flattened with a rolling pin to produce a flat and thin piece of clay.
What are clay Slabs?
The process of squeezing slip through a small tip to add decorative lines or patterns onto the clay body.
What is Slip Trailing?
The five parts of a Tea Pot.
What are the Body, Foot, Handle, Spout, and Lid?
This tool is kidney shaped and helps to form pottery. It comes in the form of wood, metal, and rubber.
What is a Rib?
Clay in liquid form.
What is Slip?
Pouring liquid clay into molds.
What is slip casting?
Carving or scratching through colored slip to create a design on the surface of a piece of pottery.
What is Sgraffito?
The name of the machine that reclaims the clay.
What is a Pug Mill?
This tool measures the circumference of the mouth of a piece of pottery.
What is a Caliper?
The three phases of clay before it has been fired.
Plastic, leather-hard, and bone dry.
The term for creating pottery on a wheel.
What is “Throwing Pottery”?
A small recessed form made out of rubber or plaster that clay is pressed into to produce a form out of clay and then popped out to add onto pottery or sculpture.
What is a Sprig Mold?
A round, flat disc made of plastic or plaster that temporarily attaches to the wheel head and is easy to lift off the wheel after making a plate.
What is a Bat?