Tools
The tool used to cut the bricks of clay, or cut the vessel off the wheel.
Wire tool
slip and score
What can you use on greenware directly?
underglaze/slips
What type of kilns are most often used in schools?
electrical
What is the first step when throwing on the wheel?
The thing we place work on for storage.
the bats
What is the hand building technique called where you roll out flat pieces of clay to assemble?
slab-building
Which types of glazes can you mix using colour theory?
underglazes
Raku
What is the step where you dig your thumb into the centre?
opening
The small objects that go under drippy vessels in the kiln.
cookies/stilts
After you assemble the base for a coil vessel, do you need to slip and score each coil?
No, you pinch them
Which types of glazes move or "break" over surface texture?
high-fire glazes/cone 6
In wood-fired pottery, this mineral is often introduced to create a liquidy "buff" effect?
salt
When you use a pinch grip, what are you doing?
pulling walls
The largest of these tools consist of a flattened steel wire attached to a wooden handle--often used for trimming bases.
The loop tool
What is it called when you place a slab into a mold form?
Slumping
What do you typically put on the rim of high-fire pots to melt into the glaze?
a flux
High fire. Low fire goes to roughly 1900F
What is it called when you carve the foot of a vessel?
trimming
Ribs
When you want to enclose a vessel on the wheel, what hand position do you use?
collaring/choking
What type of glaze can be used on greenware or bisque, and won't stick to the kiln shelf? Often used to change the way high-fire glazes break.
an englobe
What is the environment called when you remove oxygen from the kiln?
reduction
What should never sit inside the vessel while you are throwing?
water