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Pottery Techniques & Miscellaneous
Wheel Throwing
Handbuilding
Tools/Machines
Stages of Clay
100
This refers to the surface quality of a piece of pottery.
What is texture.
100
This step in the wheel throwing process is the hardest and most important.
What is centering.
100
Clay is made up of what 3 ingredients
What are minerals, soil, & water
100
This tool allows you to check the thickness of your walls of a clay built piece, score, and add texture to the surface of a clay piece.
What is a needle tool.
100
This consistency of clay allows you to add texture when hand building and trim when wheel throwing.
What is leather hard
200
This technique is used to decorate ceramics in which the top layer has patterns scratched into it, revealing the different colored layer beneath.
What is sgraffito.
200
Where should your elbows remain when throwing on the wheel?
Secured to your sides
200
This tool is used to cut clay from the block.
What is a wire tool.
200
Metal ribs are categorized into 2 types, they are ____________ & ____________.
What are smooth and serrated.
200
This is what clay is called after it's completely dry, before its been fired in the kiln.
What is bone dry.
300
These 3 ingredients make up glaze.
What is alumina, silica, & flux.
300
This tool must be put on the wheel before you start to throw so that your hands do not get cut from the wheel screws.
What is a bat.
300
For all of your handbuilt projects this semester, what is the standard thickness
What is no bigger than your pointer finger and no thinner than your pinkly (1/2 inch)
300
When wedging your clay, you should do so on the ___________ _______________.
What is plaster table.
300
Before putting two pieces of clay together, you need to __________ & ___________
What is slip & score.
400
When pulling on the potter's wheel, these 2 things are accomplished.
What is even thickness and height.
400
You need to do this with ALL pugged clay before throwing on the wheel.
What is wedge.
400
You put these on each piece of clay before it goes in the kiln room on the To Be Bisqued shelf.
What are your name and period.
400
These 2 tools were crucial in the first part of building your slab mugs.
What are a rolling pin and shims.
400
This is what clay is called after its been fired in the kiln and before its been glazed.
What is bisqued.
500
This small turntable is where clay can be formed or decorated
What is a banding wheel.
500
You need to remember this speed with your hands when throwing on the wheel.
What is slow hands on, slow hands off.
500
These 3 techniques were covered this semester for handbuilding
What is pinching, coiling, and slab building.
500
Hollowing out a clay piece prevents the piece from _____________ in the kiln.
What is exploding.
500
How do you spell the machine where clay is fired?
What is KILN