Ceramic Vocabulary
Making small scratches in the surfaces of two clay pieces in order to attach them together?
What is scoring?
This is a method in which the clay is shaped by inserting the thumb of one hand into the clay and lightly squeezing with the thumb and fingers while slowly rotating the ball in the palm of the other hand.
What is Pinching technique?
This is the stage where clay has been fired once in the kiln.
What is Bisqueware?
A specialized oven or furnace used for industrial processes such as firing clay for pottery or bricks.
What is a Kiln?
This form of clay acts as a "glue" to connect pieces of pottery together while hand building.
What is slip?
This is the technique of building ceramic forms by rolling out ropes of clay and joining them together with scoring and slipping.
What is Coil Building techniques
Clay that is dry and ready to be fired. Very fragile. Also called green ware.
What is bone dry clay?
This tool is used to roll out slabs of clay.
What is a rolling pin?
A method of kneading clay to get rid of any air bubbles.
What is wedging?
A pottery technique in which a form is built up by joining shapes cut from thick sheets of damp clay.
What is Slab building technique?
The stage where you can easily mold and model clay.
What is plastic?
A person that studies and writes about historical art
What is art historian
A glass-like surface coating for ceramics that is used to decorate and seal the pores of the fired clay.
What is a glaze?
Clay that is somewhat dry. Good for carving.
What is leather hard clay?
This is clay that dries naturally with air.
What is air dry clay?
This is the process of heating the pottery to a specific temperature in order to bring about a particular change in the clay or the surface.
What is firing?
Clay that has been fired again with a glaze.
What is Glazeware?
What would happen if there are air bubbles in your artwork?