Tools
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This furnace, made of refractory materials, is used to heat and fire clay into ceramics.
What is a kiln?
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This is clay that is hardened and heated.
What is Ceramic?
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This hand-building technique includes the use of a bat, roller bars, and a rolling pin to create flat sheets of clay.
What is slab?
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This substance is applied to a clay that has NOT been fired yet and has a matte finish without applying a clear coat on top.
What is underglaze?
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This knife is used to cleanly cut through large sections of clay with a weight that a needle tool would snap under.
What is fettling?
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This tool is made of metal, wood, or plastic and can be used to blend and smooth clay.
What is a rib?
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A fine, white clay, traditionally used to make dishware.
What is China Clay?
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This term refers to a small scale version of a sculpture, made before the full sized sculpture. It's name is where we get the term "mock-up" for a rough draft of something.
What is maquette?
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This piece of clay is formed and attached to the bottom of pieces to hold it up from a flat surface and also to allow dip glazing.
What is a footring?
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This stage of drying for clay allows for the addition of textures and carving the clay, but without it being so soft it collapses under pressure.
What is leather hard?
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This material is laid under a work area for clay projects.
What are Bats?
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This hand building technique involves rolling long tubes of clay that are wrapped around to build vessels.
What are Coils?
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These chemicals, when added to glazes, increase the flow and even apply better to the ceramic surface.
What is a deflocculant?
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This tool is used to cut out a profile of a shape in a slab of clay and is often made of hard, reusable materials.
What is a jigger?
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These are used in a hand-building technique, where long rolls of clay are built up to form the outer walls of a ceramic piece.
What are coils?
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This tool, with a very fine point, is named after a very similar medical instrument.
What is a needle tool?
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This process includes pushing clay in and centered while throwing on a potters wheel.
What is Collaring?
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This pottery technique involves scratching on the surface of leatherhard pottery onto which layers of underglaze have been applied. This scratching then reveals colors underneath.
What is sgraffito?
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A tool that passes clay through a tube to form coils, which are used for handles on jugs, cups, teapots and for applied decorating
What is an extruder?
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This kind of ceramic material is used to built kilns as it is able to withstand temperatures of up to 3000 degrees.
What is refractory?
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These tools, also found in one's kitchen, are used to pick up hot items or move them with a pinching mechanism.
What are tongs?
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This term describes when glaze moves away from a section of ceramic, leaving a bare spot.
What is Crawling?
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This kind of clay is made when clay and glaze are mixed and fired together to make a ceramic that is water resistant.
What is vitreous?
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This tool is a lifted plate that can rotate on a stand and can be used for decorating, sculpting, carving and hand building a ceramic piece.
What is a banding wheel?
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This tools is used to measure the temperature on the inside of the kiln during a firing.
What is a pyrometer?