ceramic vocab.

Question 1

ceramic

Answer 1

having to do with clay or the making of objects from clay or glass

Question 2

slip

Answer 2

clay that has been watered down

Question 3

score

Answer 3

to draw or make lines into clay

Question 4

slip/score technique

Answer 4

method used in hand building to connect two pieces of clay

Question 5

wedging

Answer 5

is the process of kneading the clay soas to remove air pockets and create uniform consistency of clay

Question 6

coil method

Answer 6

one of th oldest ways of forming pottery. Long strands od clay which are laid on top of each other and joined throgh blending coil to coil. Coil pieces can be almost any shape and any size

Question 7

stoneware

Answer 7

high-fire clay. stoneware is waterproof even without glaze; the resulting ware is sturdier than earthenware

Question 8

slab

Answer 8

a flattened out piece of clay; you may use a rolling pin or slab roller to achieve a slab of clay. Clay slabs are cut to shape and joined together using scoring and wet clay called slip. Slab can be draped over or into forms, rolled around cylinders or built-up into geometric froms. Large forms are difficult because of stresses on the seams and because the slab naturally sags . Some potters get around this by working fibers into the clay body.The fibers burn out during the firing, leaving a network of tiny holes.

Question 9

bone dry

Answer 9

clay that is completely dried but not yet fried

Question 10

greenware

Answer 10

a term used to descibe unfried clay objects in general

Question 11

bisque ware

Answer 11

clay objects that have been fried for the first time and without any glaze applied to them

Question 12

glaze ware

Answer 12

bisque waree that has been glazed then fired

Question 13

fettling knife

Answer 13

is a special knife-like tool with a fairly flexible blade for cutting into moist and leather-hard clay

Question 14

loop tool

Answer 14

a special tool with a wooden handle and a wire loop at one or both end , used for carving and hollowing out clay foms

Question 15

sprigging-on

Answer 15

a term used to describe the technique of adding small clay forms as decoration on the surface of pootery forms; also called applied decortaion

Question 16

incising

Answer 16

is a decoration techniqure, created by carving lines into the clay or carrving samll areas out of the clay but not perforating it

Question 17

kiln

Answer 17

a durnace designed specifically for heatingclay to the temperatures necessary to make it permanently hard and like stone like