Final Flashcards
(29 cards)
4 stages of clay
- Slip/slurry
- Plastic
- Leather hard
- Bone dry
Greenwear
Hasn’t been fired
Bisque wear
Fired once
Handbuilding
Slab coil pinch
Pinch
Stretching with fingers
Slab
Clay sheet
Coil
Clay ropes
Fire
Baking at 1600,2200 degrees 3x as hot as oven
Glaze
Waterproof liquid glass
Under glaze
Colored slip
Kiln
Oven
Pug mill
Machine that recycles clay
Throwing
Potters wheel to form pieces
Primary
Same as residual clay
Secondary
Same as sedimentary
Compounded
Mixture of clay body’s
Earthenware
Low firing clay body
Stoneware
Denser clay body used for everyday eating ware and at most colleges
Porcelain
“China”, very fine clay, doesn’t need to be glazed to be waterproof or shiny
Extruder
Pushes out coils
Slab roller
Machine used to roll out slabs
Wheel
Machine used to spin to make pots
Maria Martinez
Native American potter from New Mexico known for black pots
Picasso
Changed ceramics from solely craft to an art form