Ceramics Crossword Puzzle

All ceramic wear fired between 2,100 and 2,300 degrees.
A low fired clay body. Glazed pottery is fired to a temperature of 1,830 - 2,010 degrees Fahrenheit. Available in red or also white.
White stoneware, made from clay prepared from feldspar, china clay, flint and whiting.
A furnace of refractory clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass.
A device with either a manual (foot powered) or an electric rotating wheel head used to sit at and make pottery forms.
Technique to move the clay in to a symmetrical rotating axis in the middle of a wheel head so you can throw it.
A flat disc made out of plaster, wood, or plastic which is affixed to the wheel head with clay or pins. Bats are used to throw pieces on that would be difficult to lift off the wheel head.
A revolving wheelhead which sits on a pedestal base. It is turned by hand and used for finishing or decorating pottery.
Pottery which has been fired once, without glaze, to a temperature just before vitrification
Completely air dried clay.
Alumina + silica + water.
A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery.
Pushing the clay down and together, forcing the particles of clay closer.
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 electric kilns it shuts off a kiln setter.
A thin coating of glass. An impervious silicate coating, which is developed in clay ware by the fusion under heat of inorganic materials.
Unfired pottery. Ready to be bisque fired.
Stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip. For example, this is the stage handles are applied to mugs.
A small observation hole in the wall or door of a kiln.
Firing with reduced oxygen in the kiln.
Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
Clay mixed with water with a mayonnaise consistency. Used in casting and decoration.
Creating ceramic shapes on the potter’s wheel.
A method of kneading clay to make it homogenous by cutting and rolling.
The firing of pottery to the point of glossification.