Description

The second firing of potter after glaze is applied to turn the glaze into protective glass.
Dry clay that has not been fired. Clay cannot be worked on at this point.
Red earthenware clay.
The quality of something that can be decided by touch; something is rough or smooth
"To Scratch." Technique that creates a design by carving through underglaze or colored slip to reveal the clay.
A flat sheet of clay.
Top edge of a piece of ceramics.
Also called cheese hard. This stage of clay is perfect for carving and building with slabs.
Liquid Clay
A rope of clay that is rolled out and formed into pieces of pottery by scoring and slipping.
To remove clay from the surface of a piece.
A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be molded when wet, and is dried and baked
Adding clay to the surface to make a design.
Clay that has been fired once to remove all water.
The first firing of the clay to remove water and turn the clay to stone.
To form clay the compressing with the thumb and fingers.
Removing clay to make a sculpture.
Used to gauge the temperature of a kiln.
The base of a piece of pottery.
Unfired ceramic pieces.
To pour liquid clay into a mold and let harden to get ceramics.
A hard opaque pottery, fired at a very high temperature.
To build a ceramic vessel out of clay by hand.
To use a potter’s wheel to form clay into a vessel
Ceramic ware made of slightly porous opaque clay fired at low heat.
To knead clay to remove air bubbles.
A hard but delicate, shiny, white substance made by heating a Chinese clay to a high temp.
Used to throw clay vessels.
Oven used to bake clay to over 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.
A mixture of silica and other minerals that is applied to ceramics to make a glass finish

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