Test 1

Question 1

Banding wheel

Answer 1

A revolving wheel-head which sits on a pedestal base. It is turned by hand and used for finishing or decorating pottery.

Question 2

Bisque

Answer 2

Pottery which has been fired once, without glaze, to a temperature just before vitrification.

Question 3

Bisque fire

Answer 3

First firing, without glaze. Slips can be used in a bisque firing.

Question 4

Bone dry

Answer 4

Completely air dried.

Question 5

Clay

Answer 5

Alumina + silica + water

Question 6

Chuck

Answer 6

A piece used to aid the potter in trimming. A chuck is a form that can hold a pot upside-down above the wheel head while the potter trims it. Chucks are thrown and bisque fired clay cylinders which are open on both sides.

Question 7

Clay body

Answer 7

A mixture of different types of clays and minerals for a specific ceramic purpose. Example: porcelain is a translucent white clay body

Question 8

Coil

Answer 8

A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery.

Question 9

Composite pots

Answer 9

Pots that were thrown or hand built in separate pieces and then assembled

Question 10

Cone

Answer 10

Pyrometric- a pyramid composed of clay and glaze, made to melt and bend at specific temperatures. It is used in a kiln to determine the end of a firing or in some electronic kilns it shuts off a kiln setter.

Question 11

Dry-foot

Answer 11

To keep the foot or bottom of a pot free from glaze by waxing or removing the glaze.

Question 12

Earthenware

Answer 12

A low fired clay body. Glazed pottery is fired to a temperature of 1,830-2,010 degrees Fahrenheit. Available in red and white.

Question 13

Engobe

Answer 13

Colored clay slip used to decorate greenware or leather hard pieces before bisque firing. Clay and oxide and water.

Question 14

Essential properties of clay

Answer 14

Plasticity, porosity, and vitrification

Question 15

Fire

Answer 15

(Verb) to heat a clay object in a kiln to a specific temperature.

Question 16

Firing range

Answer 16

The range of a temperature at which a clay becomes mature or a glaze melts.

Question 17

Foot

Answer 17

Base of a ceramic form

Question 18

Glaze

Answer 18

A thin coating of glass. An impervious silicate coating, which is developed in clay ware by the fusion under heat of inorganic materials.

Question 19

Glaze firing

Answer 19

The final firing, with glaze.

Question 20

Greenware

Answer 20

Unfired pottery. Ready to be bisque fired.

Question 21

Grog

Answer 21

Fired clay ground to various mesh sizes.

Question 22

Kiln

Answer 22

A furnace of refractory clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass.

Question 23

Kiln furniture

Answer 23

Refractory posts and shelves used for stacking pottery in the kiln for firing.

Question 24

Leather hard

Answer 24

Stage of clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip. Example: handles applied to mugs

Question 25

Maturing point

Answer 25

The temperature at which the clay becomes hard and durable.

Question 26

Pinch

Answer 26

Manipulate clay with your fingers in your palm to a hollow shape. Pinch pots are a popular beginners project.

Question 27

(Essential property of clay) Plasticity

Answer 27

The quality of clay which allows it to be manipulated into different shapes without cracking or breaking.

Question 28

Porcelain

Answer 28

White stoneware, made from clay prepared from feldspar, China clay, flint and whiting.

Question 29

(Essential property of clay) Porosity

Answer 29

The porous quality of the clay body is determined by the size of aggregate or size of pore in the clay mixture.

Question 30

Pug

Answer 30

To mix

Question 31

Pug mill

Answer 31

A machine for mixing clay and recycling clay.

Question 32

Rib

Answer 32

A rubber, metal, or wooden tool used to facilitate wheel throwing of pottery forms.

Question 33

Slab

Answer 33

Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.

Question 34

Slake

Answer 34

To quench dry clay or glaze material in water.

Question 35

Slip

Answer 35

Clay mixture with water with a mayonnaise consistency. Used in casting and decoration.

Question 36

Soaking

Answer 36

Maintaining a low steady heat in early stages of firing to achieve a uniform temperature throughout the kiln.

Question 37

Stacking

Answer 37

Load a kiln to hold the maximum number of pieces

Question 38

Stoneware

Answer 38

All ceramic wear fired between 2,100 and 2,300 degrees. (What we are doing this semester)

Question 39

(Essential property of clay) Vitrification

Answer 39

The firing of pottery to the point of glossification.

Question 40

Wedging

Answer 40

A method of kneading clay to make it homogenous by cutting and rolling.

Question 41

Batch

Answer 41

A mixture of weighed materials such as a batch of glaze or slip or a clay body.