Glazing
The melting point is 3095 degrees Fahrenheit and creates a shiny, glossy look.
What is Silica?
A hand building technique in which a ball of clay is pinched from the center out with the thumbs to create a bowl shape.
What is pinch technique?
When the clay has been fired for the first time.
What is Bisque ware
Needle for cutting thin slabs of clay, for trimming and piercing air bubbles in soft clay
What is a pin tool?
A large oven that ceramics are baked in.
What is a kiln?
Tiny holes in the glaze surface which penetrate all the way through to the body creating a small glazing defect.
What is pinhole?
Objects made from earthy materials with the aid of heat, or the process of making these objects
What is ceramics?
Stage where the clay is somewhat dry, but still flexible. Most of the moisture has evaporated and shrinkage has just ended
What is leather hard?
a plastic or metal tool used for smoothing clay
What is a rib tool?
A thin coating of special glass, used as a decoration and to seal clay surfaces.
What is Glaze?
Helps lower the melting point of silica.
What is flux?
Roughing up the surface of the clay for joining pieces.
What is scoring?
Clay that has not been fired.
What is greenware?
Tool has looped metal wire ends for hollowing and sculpting soft clay
What is a wire loop tool?
Placing the ware in the kiln in preparation for firing
What is a setting?
Stiffening agent that helps glaze adhere to the clay body.
What is Alumina?
Decomposed rock which forms a mass of tiny plates with both free and chemically combined water.
What is clay?
Too much or little of this makes clay crack.
What is water ?
A plastic disk or square slab. 3/4" to 1 1/2" thick on which a pot is thrown or is placed to dry when removed from the wheel.
What is a bat?
The temperature that our kiln reaches
What is 2000 degrees?
A colorant that can be used to produce delicate turquoise, red, green, black, yellow, pink, blue, and copper luster
What is Copper Oxide?
A raised piece of clay that allows the form to stand away from the surface it is placed on. The base of a piece of pottery.
What is a foot?
Artwork that can't be reattached but it can be re-wet and softened. It is very hard to bring it back to leather hard.
What is Bone Dry?
The general purpose of this tool is to cut soft and leather-hard clay
What is a fettling knife?
A mid-fire setting that the buff stoneware clay we use is fired in.
What is Cone 05?