Tools
This tool is best for cutting clay
Fettling Knife
What technique starts with a ball of clay?
Pinch
The most liquid stage of clay
This tool is used to "fire" Clay.
What is a kiln?
When done working on your project for the day, what do you need to do?
Spray and wrap your project in a plastic bag - return to the shelf.
This tool is used for smoothing out clay
Rib Tool
Simplest and fastest hand building technique
Pinch
What is the stage of clay after it's been fired once?
Bisque
What is the last stage of clay?
Glazeware
Why is it important to pierce holes, create an opening in the form or hollow out an area of the enclosed form in a solid work?
To let the air out so it doesn't explode
This tool is used for cutting large chunks of clay from a block
Wire tool
Technique to build flat tiles
Slab
When starting a project you want your clay in this stage
Plastic
Fired to 1800 degrees fahrenheit
What is Bisqueware?
What is design, craftsmanship, and overall effect.
Used for carving a design, writing your name on the bottom, or poking holes to let out air.
What is a Needle tool
Ceramics works are considered this:
What is a sculpture or what is 3-d?
The most fragile stage of clay
Bone Dry
Glaze at Cone 05-06.
What is low fire glaze?
Decomposed granite-type rock
What is clay?
Name this tool.
See front table tool box to name all 5 tools.
Describe how to join to pieces of slab together
Slip and score
Score - rough up the surface with a fork, pin, or scoring tool. Add slip - liquid clay used as glue
Any stage before firing
Greenware
How can you tell your clay is bone dry and ready for firing?
It is room temperature - no longer cool (moisture has left the clay)
This aligns clay particles, eliminates air bubbles and makes dry clay wetter.
What is to Wedge?