Clay Stages
Completely air dried clay. Unfired clay that has no absorbed moisture other than natural humidity. (Extremely Fragile)
Bone Dry
A method of manipulating clay with your fingers in your palm to a hollow shape? (usually a pot beginners project).
Pinch Pot
The explosion of clay in the kiln caused by the sudden escape of steam resulting from rapid heating of the presence of impurities.
blowout
Clay that has been hardened by intense heat
ceramic
Stage between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip. (Ex. Hershey's chocolate bar)
Leatherhard
Methods of building clay forms using only hands and simple tools.
Hand Building
Clay and water mixture that is used like glue when putting 2 pieces of clay together
Slip
A strongly raised or deeply carved pattern
high relief
What stage of clay is flexible clay that can bend, you can carve/ cut into it, and where 90% of the building is done?
Plastic
A method of manipulating clay with your fingers in your palm to a hollow shape? (usually a pot beginners project)
Pinch Pot
A method of kneading clay, to make it even and work out bubbles.
Wedging
Furnace where pottery is fired
kiln
Unfired Pottery that is ready to be fired.
Greenware/bonedry
A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery
Coil
To scratch the surface, used with slip to join moist clay pieces together.
Score
The final firing, with glaze
glaze firing
What is it called when clay has been fired only 1 time?
Bisque
Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building
Slab
Clay that has become hard. "Baked"
Fired
A low fired clay body. Glazed pottery is fired to a temperature of 1830-2010 degrees Fahrenheit
Earthenware