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Equipment
Tools of the Trade
Building Things
Stages of Clay
Potpourri
100
A machine used for making round ceramics
What is a pottery wheel
100
A flat wooden, rubber, or metal tool used to smooth wet or leather hard pieces of clay
What is a rib
100
Kneading the clay with hands to force out air pockets.
What is wedging
100
clay that has not been fired
What is greenware
100
The surface quality of an object, such as rough or smooth
What is texture
200
A machine used to mix clay back into the correct consistency
What is a pug mill
200
Wooden instrument used to shape and carve out clay
What is a modeling tool
200
A joining technique where two pieces of clay are roughed up and "glued" together using a liquid clay.
What is score and slip
200
Clay is firm enough to pick up without distorting but it is still workable. It is cool to the touch.
What is leather hard
200
A watery clay liquid used for joining pieces of clay together
What is slip
300
A large oven that ceramics are baked in
What is a kiln
300
Used to cut off large pieces of clay and check for air pockets
What is a wire cutter
300
Building a ceramic piece with flat sections of clay.
What is slab construction
300
The stage of clay where it is most fragile. It is no longer cool to the touch and is lighter in color
What is bone dry
300
A flat piece of clay used for decoration or for sealing a wall, floor, or roof
What is tile
400
A machine used to flatten clay
What is a slab roller
400
A sharp instrument with a flexible blade often used to cut into a slab of clay
What is a fettling knife
400
Working with clay on the pottery wheel
What is throwing
400
Clay that has been fired once and is ready to glaze
What is bisque
400
A piece of art made by setting small glazed tiles in cement
What is mosaic
500
Heating the clay in the kiln
What is firing
500
An instrument with wire loops at the end used to carve clay
What is a loop tool
500
Building a ceramic piece with long, rope-like section of clay
What is coil construction
500
A thin, glassy layer on the surface of pottery
What is glaze
500
The act of forming the clay to the center of the pottery wheel
What is centering