Building Techniques I
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 pinch technique?
A large oven that ceramics are baked in.
What is a kiln?
When the clay has been fired for the first time.
What is Bisque ware
Needle for cutting thin slabs of clay, for trimming and piercing air bubbles in soft clay
What is a pin tool?
Handbuilding technique in which the object is built up with rope like pieces of clay, one on top of another.
What is coil technique?
Objects made from earthy materials with the aid of heat, or the process of making these objects
What is ceramics?
A thin coating of special glass, used as a decoration and to seal clay surfaces.
What is Glaze?
Stage where the clay is somewhat dry, but still flexible. Most of the moisture has evaporated and shrinkage has just ended
What is leather hard?
a plastic or metal tool used for smoothing clay
What is a rib tool?
Handbuilding technique in which flat pieces of clay are joined together.
What is the slab technique?
Roughing up the surface of the clay for joining pieces.
What is scoring?
Placing the ware in the kiln in preparation for firing
What is a setting?
Clay that has not been fired.
What is greenware?
Tool has looped metal wire ends for hollowing and sculpting soft clay
What is a wire loop tool?
A liquid form of clay used as a glue to join pieces. Can also be used for decoration.
What is slip?
Decomposed rock which forms a mass of tiny plates with both free and chemically combined water.
What is clay?
The temperature that our kiln reaches
What is 2000 degrees?
Too much or little of this makes clay crack.
What is water ?
A plastic disk or square slab. 3/4" to 1 1/2" thick on which a pot is thrown or is placed to dry when removed from the wheel.
What is a bat?
Forming clay on the potters wheel
What is wheel throwing?
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?
In ceramics, to take fired ware from the kiln
What is draw?
Artwork that can't be reattached but it can be re-wet and softened. It is very hard to bring it back to leather hard.
What is Bone Dry?
The general purpose of this tool is to cut soft and leather-hard clay
What is a fettling knife?
The process of making a symmetrical lump of clay that is precisely in the center of the wheel
What is centering?