Clay Stages
Firing Stages
6 Truths of Ceramics
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This is fired in the kiln once, ready for glaze.
What is bisque?
100
The length it can take to completely dry your project.
What is a week
100
This makes clay weak.
What is water?
100
This might happen to your hands when you use clay.
What is make them dry?
100
When you throw clay on a wheel you are making this.
What is pottery?
200
The first stage of clay.
What is slip?
200
The second firing is for this.
What is glazing?
200
One cause that makes projects blow up in the kiln.
What is trapped air or wet clay
200
The best time to carve clay.
What is leather hard?
200
When you are hand building clay, you are making this.
What is ceramics?
300
If your clay is cool to the touch it is this.
What is leather hard?
300
How hot the kiln reach in the first firing.
What is 2500 degrees?
300
If you rush clay, this is the result.
What is failure?
300
You might get this if you breathe in too much clay dust
What is silicosis?
300
You never do this before turning in a project.
What is let the project dry out?
400
We use this stage of clay to make things.
What is wet clay?
400
The last thing you do with your project
What is take it home?
400
The enemy in ceramics.
What is clay dust?
400
The place where clay is found.
What is the ground?
400
The class that will be your favorite and where you will work hard to make awesome projects this trimester will be....
What is CERAMICS, DUH!
500
The most fragile stage of clay.
What is bone dry?
500
In-between firing, you do this with your project.
What is paint it with glaze?
500
The maximum thickness clay can be
What is 1 inch?
500
The stage clay will be in before it is bisqued.
What is bone dry?
500
Once the clay is dry, you will not be able to do this.
What is add water to it?
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