Vocabulary
Wheel-Throwing
Tools
Hand-building
Materials and Equipment
100
This is the oven in which we fire our clay.
What is a kiln?
100
This is the speed you use for centering your clay.
What is fast?
100
This tool is great for making score marks, cutting your clay or poking your eye out.
What is a needle tool?
100
This is when you remove clay from your piece by carving or cutting it away.
What is subtractive sculpture?
100
This surface will help to remove the excess water in your clay.
What is plaster?
200
This is when you attach clay to an existing piece.
What is additive sculpture?
200
This is the step in which you use both thumbs to create a hole in your clay.
What is open your clay?
200
This tool is great for working on your craftsmanship on a wet thrown piece. It is also great for blending coils, smoothing clay and working between details.
What is a wood modeling tool.
200
This is the process of kneading clay in order to make it an even consistency and to remove air bubbles.
What is wedging?
200
This is a wheel that is not powered by electricity.
What is a kick wheel?
300
These glazes are applied by dipping your piece and are fired in the gas kiln.
What are Cone 10 glazes?
300
This is the step in which you squeeze the sides of your clay upward to make a cylinder shape.
What is pull the wall?
300
These 3 tools are all good for smoothing your clay.
What is a sponge, fingers, rubber scraper, metal scraper, wood modeling tool, etc.
300
This is what you need to do to to attach two pieces of clay together.
What is score and slip? and blend!
300
This is the machine that recycles clay.
What is the pugmill?
400
These glazes are good for detail work because they do not drip.
What are Cone 06 glazes?
400
This is the speed you should use when working with your walls.
What is slow or slow to medium?
400
This tool is good for cutting your piece off the wheel or cutting a large piece of clay.
What is a wire tool?
400
This is a snake-like piece of clay.
What is a coil?
400
This is a board on which you build. It is also helpful for carrying your piece.
What is a bat?
500
Wedging is done to make the clay an even consistency and also to remove these.
What are air bubbles?
500
These are the four throwing tools you leave in your bucket.
What is the needle tool, sponge, wood modeling tool and wooden rib tool?
500
This tool is great for carving your clay or trimming on the wheel. It shares its name with something you wrap presents with.
What is a ribbon tool?
500
This building method is done by squeezing your clay with your fingers. You could use it to make walls of a pot or to make a sculpture.
What is pinching?
500
This is used to protect areas of your pot that you do not want glazed.
What is wax?