Pottery Techniques
What is the term for shaping clay using a spinning wheel?
What is wheel throwing?
What tool is used to smooth and shape clay, often made of wood or metal?
What is a rib?
What is the soft, moldable stage of clay called?
What is plastic clay?
What 1990 movie famously featured a romantic pottery scene?
What is Ghost?
What do we call liquid clay?
What is slip?
What is the slab method in pottery?
What is rolling flat pieces of clay and cutting or joining them to build forms?
What tool is used to cut clay from a block or off the wheel?
What is a wire cutter?
What is greenware?
What is unfired pottery?
Which wizarding school teaches students to make magical items, sometimes using ceramics?
What is Hogwarts?
What is the glass-like surface coating applied to pottery?
What is glaze?
What does it mean to "bisque fire" a piece of pottery?
What is the first firing to harden the clay before glazing?
1800 degrees
What mistake happens when you don't score and slip properly?
What is the pieces won't stay attached?
What chemical makes glaze shiny?
Silica
Which famous British TV show is a competitive pottery reality series?
What is The Great Pottery Throw Down?
What is the term for the oven used to fire pottery?
What is a kiln?
How do you join 2 pieces of clay together?
Score and Slip
What happens if glaze is applied too thick?
What is it can run or bubble off the pot?
What is underglaze? How is it different from glaze?
What is a type of ceramic pigment applied to the surface of the clay before it is glazed. Can be applied on greenware and bisque?
This clay animated film features button eyed characters
what is Coraline
What stage of clay is completely dry and ready to fire, but extremely fragile?
What is bone dry?
What technique involves rolling clay into thin, long pieces and stacking them?
What is coiling?
What causes cracks in clay during drying?
What is drying too quickly or unevenly?
What is clay called when it’s completely dry but not yet fired?
What is bone dry?
What animated show features a character named Patrick who tried pottery?
What is SpongeBob SquarePants?
What is the term for removing air bubbles from clay?
What is wedging?