What is the composition of clay; What is clay made of?
100
The clay's ability to be molded/shaped and hold its form during drying and firing.
What is Plasticity?
100
The Lip
What is the top edge of the clay pot?
100
The stage when you can form coils for coil building.
What is the Plastic Stage?
100
The process to remove air bubbles and make clay a uniform consistency
What is Wedging?
200
The differences in clay bodies
What are Colors, Strengths, Firing Temps, and Texture?
200
The process of becoming glasslike
What is Vitrification?
200
This situation causes Glazes to Run
What is too many or too thick of coats?
200
The stage in which clay that has been fired once and is permanent, but not waterproof.
What is the Bisqueware Stage?
200
These forms are made by using the heel of the hand to roll out balls of clay into “worm-like” shapes which are stacked on top of each other to form walls.
What is Coils?
300
Flower pots are examples of this type of clay body.
What is earthware?
300
This situation causes clay to melt like a pancake
What is heating too hot?
300
The part of the pot between the neck and the body.
What is the shoulder?
300
The stage in which clay has been fired twice and is waterproof.
What is the Glazeware Stage?
300
The process of joining two pieces together.
What is scoring, slipping, and using a little pressure?
400
This clay body has only about a 50% recovery rate
What is Porcelain?
400
This property of clay is determined by the size and shape of very fine grains or particles of clay called platelets
What is Plasticity?
400
The reason a pot may explode!!!
What is trapped air, too thick of clay wall, and too wet of clay body?
400
Stage during which clay is VERY, VERY, VERY fragile!!!
What is the Greenware Stage?
400
A method to vary the surface formed by pressing designs into the moist clay
What is Imprinting?
500
A strong and durable clay body used in waterpipes
What is Stoneware?
500
During this process, clay becomes hard and like glass.
What is Vitrification
500
The result if you add too much water or let clay form dry too fast.
What is Crack or Break?
500
Stage when some water has evaporated from pot; designs can be carved into pot.
What is the Leatherhard Stage?
500
Clay does this twice (once during drying and once during firing) due to water loss