Intro to Ceramics
What is clay?
Decomposed rock and organic material
Pinch
Bone dry
A liquid mix of pieces of clay in water
Slip
The bottom of a piece of pottery, the part that the pot rest on?
foot/base
What are three types of clay?
Porcelain, Stoneware, Earthenware
A method of hand building pottery where a potter forms a base, walls, and style by combining clay cylinders
Coil
75% water, 25% clay. Thick consistency like cream?
Slip
Scratching or roughing-‐up the clay surface
Scoring
The opening or edge of a pot?
Rim/mouth
Objects made from clay that permanently retain their shape after being fired
Ceramics
A method of making pottery in which a think, flat plate, or slice of clay is cut into shapes which are joined to form an object?
Slab
50% water, 50% clay. It is bendable?
Plastic
the strategy for achieving ceramics with improved mechanical properties, especially toughness
Reinforcing
A method of harding clay by heating it around 1800-2200 degrees F?
Firing
True
The process of forming clay into shapes with a machine?
Wheel
25% water, 75% clay. Enough moisture to carve but will break if its bent?
Leather hard
To indent a design or textures into soft clay by pressing different shaped objects into it
Impress
an oven or furnace for hardening, burning, or drying something.
Kiln
Any object made from clay that has use?
Pottery
The process of combing loose pieces of clay to a work of art and smoothing it out?
Blending
Unglazed pottery that has been fired?
Bisque
Clay that has been shaped but not fired?
Greenware
How many letter are in the teachers last name?
6