Hand Building Techniques
A hand method of forming pottery by building up the walls with coils of rope-like rolls of clay.
What is coiling?
General term for unfired clay articles.
What is earthenware?
Low-fire clay that comes in red or white.
What is earthenware?
Low fire clay may be fired in a traditional kitchen oven.
What is False?
This substance can serve to color, decorate or waterproof an item.
What is ceramic glaze?
A simple form of hand-made pottery produced from ancient times to the present.
What is pinching?
The final stage of greenware dried to a completely dry state and ready to be fired. In this stage, the clay is very fragile, non-plastic and porous
What is bone-dry?
Properties of this clay body include elasticity, considerable strength, whiteness and translucency. It fires between 2,200 and 2,600 °F.
What is porcelain clay?
The temperature at which this clay body matures, generally considered to be between cones 09 and 02 (1700 and 2000 degrees F).
What is low-fire clay?
True or False: Glazing can make earthenware vessels waterproof.
What is true?
A clay slurry used to join two pieces of clay.
What is slip?
Pottery that has been fired but not yet glazed
What is bisque?
A clay which is fired at a higher temperature of 2,200* F. This results in a more durable material, with a denser, stone-like quality.
What is stoneware?
The oldest known method for the firing of pottery. Examples have been dated as early as 29,000–25,000
What is pit-firing?
A raw material of ceramic glazes which is the main glass former and is also the major constituent of sand.
What is silica?
Type of hand-building using rolled out flat pieces of clay.
What is slab?
The condition of a clay or clay body when it has been partially dried, clay is still slightly bendable.
What is leather-hard?
A type of accessible earthenware clay that has rich red and orange hues, as well as, pottery or other items made using this clay.
What is terracotta?
The earliest known dates to around 6000 BCE, and was found at a site in modern day Iraq.
What is a kiln?
Raw metal materials such as iron oxide, copper carbonate, or cobalt carbonate contribute this characteristic to ceramic glazes.
What is color?
A three-dimensional clay work, usually decorative rather than utilitarian.
What is clay sculpture?
The quality of clay that allows it to be manipulated and still maintain its shape without cracking.
What is plasticity?
Clay body that doesn't require firing in a kiln.
What is air-dry clay?
True or False: The pronunciation of the word "kiln" is "kill".
What is true?
Glazing on pottery followed the invention of glass in the Middle East, Egypt and China around this time.
What is 1500 BC?