Building Techniques
A hand building technique in which a ball of clay is pinched from the center out with the thumbs to create a bowl shape.
What is the pinch method?
A large oven that ceramics are baked in.
What is the kiln?
When the clay has been fired for the first time.
What is bisque?
This tool has a sharp, pointed end that is meant for cutting and small designs.
What is a needle tool?
The more you touch the clay the _______ it gets.
What is drier?
Objects made from earthy materials with the aid of heat, or the process of making these objects
What is pottery? or Ceramics?
A thin coating of special glass, used as a decoration and to seal clay surfaces.
What is glaze?
What is leather hard?
This tool has a wire end that is meant for carving out clay.
What is a loop tool?
This is the process of removing air bubbles from the clay and evenly distributing the moisture.
What is wedging?
Roughing up the surface of the clay for joining pieces.
What is scoring?
This can make your clay break or explode in the kiln.
What is uneven thickness/moisture/air bubbles?
This stage is clay's wettest form. Also know as clay glue.
What is slip?
a plastic, metal, or rubber tool used for smoothing clay
What is a rib?
This stage of clay is the most fragile
What is bone dry?
Finely ground rocks and minerals suspended in water
What is clay?
The process of heating clay until it becomes hard.
What is firing?
This is why/when clay can no longer be recycled.
What is fired? or Bisque
The general purpose of this tool is to cut soft and leather-hard clay
What is a fettling knife?
This is the method of hand building when the clay is rolled flat.
What is slab?
A raised piece of clay that allows the form to stand away from the surface it is placed on. The base of a piece of pottery.
What is a foot?
The temperature that our kiln reaches for bisque firing.
What is 1888 F?
This is the term for when clay is recyced.
What is reclaimed?
This tool pushes clay through small holes to create noodle like pieces.
What is an extruder?
Forming clay on the potters wheel
What is throwing?