All About Ceramics

Kilns/Firings

100

Cone 06-04 is known as 

Low-Fire 

200

Cone 05-6 is known as a

Mid-Fire

300

Cone 8-10 is known as

High-Fire

400

This type of kiln can fire multiple materials and can be used in a school or house.

Electric

500

This type of kiln requires burnable materials collected from nature.

Wood

Clays

100

A high-fire fine grain white clay body.

Porcelain Clay

200

Mid or High-Fire course-grained clay body

Stoneware Clay

300

A low-fire fine-grained clay body.

Earthenware Clay

400

Finished ceramics that have been fired twice is known as

Glazeware

500

There are this many types of clay

Three

Techniques

100

Rope like piece of clay

Coil

200

Flat piece of clay

Slab

300

Polish the surface using friction

Burnish

400

Used to create ceramic plates, vases, and bowls

Wheel

500

This is the only method where clay can be manipulated with your hands and fingers

Pinching

Stages of Clay

100

This stage of clay is still visibly wet.

Leatherhard

200

This stage of clay is dry unfired clay.

Greenware

300

This stage of the clay is clay that has already been fired once.

Bisque

400

Finished pottery is referred to as

Ceramics

500

A term used to describe the greenware stage of clay

Bone dry

Wildcard

100

The earliest form of clay was dated back to _________ B.C.

30,000

200

The greek word for clay and pottery

Ceramics

300

Clay goes through this many stages before it is completely finished. 

Seven

400

There are this many different types of kilns.

Five

500

There are this many types of firings.

Three