Hand Building Methods
Tools
Pottery Techniques
Firing Terminology
Ceramic Terms
100
The process of turning a lump of clay in your hand and pressing it into a little bowl.
What is the Pinch method of forming clay?
100
The knife that is used in the ceramics class to cut and smooth pottery.
What is the fettling knife?
100
Roughening the surface of two pieces of clay before they are attached to each other.
What is scoring?
100
This term refers to the process of heating the clay in the kiln.
What is fired?
100
The principle of design that means oneness or unity.
What is Harmony?
200
Laying thin ropes of clay on top of each other then smoothing them to create a flowing piece of pottery.
What is the coil method of forming pottery?
200
A portable turntable used to rotate pottery while it is being worked on.
What is the Banding wheel?
200
A guide cut from cardboard to hold next to the coil pottery while it is being constructed so that the pot will be symmetrical.
What is a template?
200
The final firing to vitrify the clay body and melt the glass covering onto the project.
What is Glaze Fire?
200
The technique of applying decoration with a small bottle of watered down clay.
What is slip-trailing?
300
Joining together leather hard sheets of clay to create an angular piece such as a box.
What is the Firm slab method?
300
A wooden tool used to blend clay together.
What is the modeling tool?
300
The process of cleaning the glaze off of the bottom of a pot before it is fired.
What is Dry foot?
300
The oven used to heat pottery to extreme temperatures.
What is the kiln?
300
When is this procedure done?The inside of our pottery is glazed by pouring the glaze into the pot.
The part of our pots that we glaze FIRST?
400
Texturing small balls of clay and then flattening them out and adding them to the wall of a pot to build the body.
What is the Stretch Slab?
400
Used to slice large slabs of clay and to cut pots off of the potter's wheel.
What is the wire cutter?
400
The names given to a piece of pottery: the top, the middle and the bottom.
What is LIP, BODY, FOOT?
400
The first firing in which the water molecules in the clay are burned off and the clay is left hard but still porous.
What is bisque firing?
400
A critical analysis of a work of art.
What is a critique?
500
Using the electric wheel to form perfectly symmetrical pottery.
What is the potters wheel technique?
500
Used for incising a design into clay and sgraffito work.
What is the loop tool used for?
500
Kneading clay to dispel air bubbles and to unify the moisture content and consistency of the clay body.
What is Wedging?
500
Firing in an electric kiln where sufficient oxygen is in the kiln atmosphere during firing.
What is Oxidation Firing?
500
The process of laying a sheet of clay over an object and allowing the clay to take the form of that object.
What is the Drape Mold process?
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