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?
In Avatar: The Last Airbender, which element would a potter most likely connect to?
Earth
What stage of clay is completely dry and ready to fire, but extremely fragile?
What is bone dry?
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?
This clay animated film features button eyed characters
what is Coraline
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 mistake happens when you don't score and slip properly?
What is the pieces won't stay attached?
What is BisqueWare?
After it comes out of the 1st firing
This Clay animated movie features trolls and cheese
What is BoxTrolls?
What is the colored material that is not glossy and can go on greenware and bisque?
What is underglaze
What does it mean to "bisque fire" a piece of pottery?
What is the first firing to harden the clay before glazing?
1800 degrees
Can we put underglazed on the bottom of our piece? What will happen? Why?
Yes!! underglaze does not have silica so it wont stick to the kiln shelf
What chemical makes glaze shiny?
Silica
What 1990 movie famously featured a romantic pottery scene?
What is Ghost?
What is the glass-like surface coating applied to pottery?
What is glaze?
How many times can you fire your piece?
Endless! but the standard is 2
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?
What is the British television competition where amateur potters compete to be crowned the best at the wheel.
The great pottery throwdown
What do we call liquid clay?
What is slip?