Ceramic Terms
Stages of Ceramics
Building a Ceramic Piece
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Kiln
What is a furnace or oven for burning, drying, and firing pottery?
100
Greenware
What is ceramic ware that has not been fired?
100
Pinch Construction
What is using your hands to hand press and shape the clay?
100
Pottery
What is objects made using ceramic techniques?
200
Glaze
What is glass-like surface coating for ceramics that is used to decorate and seal the pores of the fired clay.
200
Leatherhard
What stage is clay in when it holds itself stiff, but still able to add new pieces of clay?
200
Coil construction
What is creating a piece of art using clay that is formed by rolling it into long ropes?
200
Wet, leather hard, bonedry
What is stages of clay?
300
Ceramics
What is the process of creating objects from clay and hardening them by fire?
300
Bonedry
What stage of dryness is clay in when it is waiting to go into the kiln?
300
Slab construction
What is creating a piece of art using clay that has been rolled out to a flat even thickness?
300
Sculpture
What is a three-dimensional artwork called?
400
Wedging
What is pounding clay in order to remove air bubbles?
400
Wet
What stage is clay in when you first start working with it?
400
Handbuilding
What is one of several techniques of building a ceramic piece using only the hands and simple tools?
400
Fettling Knife
What is a tool called that is used to cut clay?
500
Form (3D)
What is having or seeming to have the dimension of depth as well as width and height?
500
Bisque
What do you call ceramic ware that has been fired once without glaze ?
500
Slip
What is liquid clay?
500
Score and Slip
What is a method of joining two pieces of clay together?
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