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Steps For Potter's Wheel Flashcards

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Wedging result

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Air bubbles removed

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Wedging action

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Kneading the clay

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Centering action

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Coning the clay up and down

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Centering result

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To force the clay into the center of the wheel

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Opening action

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Pressing on the top center of the clay

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Opening result

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To create the mouth of the pot

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Checking the foot action

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Poke a needle tool through the floor of the pot

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Checking the foot result

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To measure the thickness of the bottom of the pot

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Dragging the floor action

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Press down and flatten out the bottom inside or the pot

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Dragging the floor result

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To widen and flatten the bottom inside of the pot

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Pulling the wall action

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Pushing in and lifting up the sides of the clay

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Pulling the wall result

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To make the cylinder thinner and taller

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Shaping action

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Choking in or pulling out

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Shaping result

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To give the pot form

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Trimming and tooling action

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Using the loop trimmer

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Trimming and tooling result

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To remove excess clay from the pot

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Wedging table

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A porus where we wedge

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Kiln room

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Room with the kiln

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Kiln

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High temp oven for clay

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Pyrometer

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High temp thermometer

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Pyrometric cone

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Way to measure the temp of the clay

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Kiln furniture

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Trays in the firing kiln that are high temp resistant

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Kiln shelves

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Platform in which we load our ceramics

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Kiln posts

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hold up shelves

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Kiln wash
The coating on shelves to protect them from glaze
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Terracotta
Iron rich clay full of grog that is good for sculptures
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Porcelain
Translucent clay with no grog, found below mountains
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Stoneware
Utilitarian clay; that can be used daily, high in grog
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Clay body
New clay from the barrel or from the box (75% clay 25% water)
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Greenware
Clay that has been worked on
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Leather hard
Clay that holds it's shape | When you want to slip and score
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Bone dry
Fragile ready to fire clay (5% water)
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Firing
Heat treating at 10000 degrees for several hours
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Bisque firing
First fire- turns the clay into stone
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Bisqueware
Project after the first firing; it is ready for glazing
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Glaze firing
2nd firing melts the glaze on to the surface of the clay
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Glazeware
Ceramics after the second firing
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Engobes
Colored slips- natural colors
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Sgraffito
Scraping through paint to reveal the clay surface below
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Glaze
Vitreous coating used in fired clay
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Clear/transparent
Milky before firing
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Matte
Not glossy
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Luster
Mirror-like gloss glaze
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Crackle
Cracking in the glaze
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Crawling
Glaze doesn't stick
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Celadon
Clean light green glaze
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Opaque
Can not see through
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Translucent
Can see light through it
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Bamboo brush
Soft bristle brush used for glazing
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Needle tool
Used for scoring, incising, and cutting through small pieces of clay
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Settling knife
Dull knife that cuts slabs of clay
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Wire tool
Used for cutting masses of clay or under pots
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Loop trimmer
Used for trimming the foot of the pot, carving excess clay, and hollowing out a pinch pot
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Potters sponge
Round sponge used for adding/ removing water from a project
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Rib tool
used for shaping on the wheel or smoothing/sculpting clay
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Turntable
Spins and is used for banding and modeling clay
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Calipers
Used to measure the lip of a pot to make a lid that fits
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Pot lift
Used to remove a pot from the wheel head
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Modeling tool
Double ended tools used for texture and clean up
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Clay shaper
Clay eraser (as teacher to use)
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Dental pick
Used as modeling tool
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Hump mould
A rounded out surface we drape clay over to creat a form
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Convex
Rounded out
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Press mould
A rounded in surface we press our clay into to create a form
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Concave
Rounded in
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Rolling pin
Flattening tool used for rolling out slabs of clay
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Carving
Cutting away from your work
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Incising
Drawing on clay with a needle tool
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Piercing
poking through with a needle
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Banding
Striping with wheel or turn table
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Template
Create a paper pattern
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Sponging
Glazing technique
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Stamping
Textures on clay and glazing
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Splattering
Glazing
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Decal
High fire sticker
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Dipping
Glaze
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Pouring
Fill pot with glaze then spread around
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Slab build
Rolling out sheets if clay and then attaching them to the pot
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Coil built
Rolling out snakes of clay and then attaching them
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Pinch pot
Sculpture created with a hollow ball and added forms
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Slip
Liquid clay 50% water 50% clay
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scoring
Scratching deeply on the surface of your clay to create grooves for your slip
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Joining
Attaching clay by slipping and scoring
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Modeling
Making a project look like something
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Sculpting
Carving away to reveal form
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Flux
A silicate that creates the smooth glassy finish
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Grog
Hard gritty substance that increases stability and texture
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Lip
Top rim of the pot
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Wall
The sides of the pot
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Floor
Bottom inside of the pot
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Foot
Bottom outside of the pot
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Potters wheel
Machine that spins your clay into a pot
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Wheel head
The surface of the wheel that spins
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Bat pins
Hold the bats on
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Pedal
Regulates the speed of the wheel
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Splash pan
Protects your legs from splattering water
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Bat
Flat disc on which you throw your clay so you can remove it from the wheel
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Underglaze
Matte paint added before glazing
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Oxide
Ground mineral color containing oxygen
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Rutile
Sandy gold
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Cobalt
Dark blue
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Copper carbonate
Green oxide
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Red iron
Rust oxide
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Black iron
Black
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Zinc
White

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