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Ways to create
Clay characteristics
Clay Vocab
Stages of Clay
Clay Video
100
This is a type of handbuilding where the fingertips are used to press and open up the clay into the desire shape.
Pinch method
100
When this is trapped in the clay, it expands when heated and causes your project to break into pieces.
Air bubbles
100
This is basically wet mud that becomes permanent when heated or fired to a high temperature.
Clay
100
What do we call clay that is soft enough to be modeled?
Wet or plastic
100
What state do the Lewis women live and create their pottery?
New Mexico
200
This method of clay handbuilding uses flat, even pieces of clay that are joined together to create the forms.
Slab
200
True or False: clay can be left out and still worked on, as long as you cover it within 24 hours.
False, clay starts to dry as soon as it is in open to the air. Cover within the hour!
200
A special oven that can reach very high temperatures and is used to fire the clay.
Kiln
200
This is the state of clay that has lost some moisture, but has not completely hardened.
Leather hard
200
What did they grind up to make the colors they added to the drawings on their pots?
Rocks or stones
300
This type of handbuilding uses thick ropes of clay placed on top of each other and then welded together to build up the form.
Coil Method
300
What is the process of scratching two pieces of clay and applying a clay "glue" to join them together?
Score and Slip
300
to make scratches in the pieces of clay to be joined together.
Score
300
Clay that is totally dried out, no water remains
Bone dry
300
What is the color of the slip that they add to most of their pots to give them the base color?
Slip
400
This method of uses a machine with a flat spinning head which spins the clay around as the artists uses their hands to control the shape of the form.
Pottery wheel, or throwing
400
True or False: clay is immediately ready to put into the kiln to fire as soon as you are finished with the project.
False, it must be totally bone dry! (water expands when heated, breaking your project)
400
a creamy liquid made by mixing ground clay with water, used as a glue.
Slip
400
What do we call clay that has been fired once, and ready for glazing or painting?
Bisque
400
In the video we watched, what is the name of the Indian tribe the women's ancestors were from?
The Anasazi
500
This method of uses liquid clay (slip) that is poured into a mold and allowed to dry before releasing the form from the mold.
Casting
500
Dry clay work ready to be fired in the kiln is called this:
Greenware
500
What is the process of smoothing the seam between two joined, wet pieces of clay?
Welding
500
What is the chalky substance applied to bisqueware that when fired again, gives it a bright, colorful, shiney surface?
Glaze
500
What was the name of the oldest woman who taught the daughters how to make their pots like their ancestors did?
Lucy Lewis