ceramic vocabulary

Question 1

Having to do with clay or glass or the making of objects from clay or glass.

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Ceramic

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Clay that has been watered down ; acts as glue in slip/score technique. slip a fine, liquid form of clay applied to the surface of a vessel prior to firing. Slip fills in pores and gives uniform color.

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Slip

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To draw or make lines into clay

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Score

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Method used in hand building to connect two pieces of clay together.

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Slip/Score technique

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Is the process of kneading the clay so as to remove air pockets and create uniform consistency of clay

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Wedging

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One of the oldest ways of forming pottery. Long strands of clay which are laid on top of each other and joined through blending coil to coil. Coil pieces can be almost any shape and any size.

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Coil method

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High-fire clay.Stoneware is waterproof even without glaze; the resulting ware is sturdier than earthenware.

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Stoneware

Question 8

A flattened out piece of clay; you may use a rolling pin or slab roller to acheive a slab of clay. Clay slabs are cut to shape and joined together using scoring and wet clay called slip. Slabs can be draped over or into forms, rolled around cylinders or built up into geometric forms. Large forms are difficult because of stresses on the seams and because the slab nauturally sags. Some potters get around this by working fibers into the clay body. The fibers burn out during the firing, leaving a network of tiny holes.

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Slab

Question 9

Clay that is completely dried but not yet fired.

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Bone dry

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A term used to describe unfired clay objects in general.

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Greenware

Question 11

Clay objects that have been fired for the first time and without any glaze applied to them.

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Bisque ware

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Bisque ware that has been glazed then fired.

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Glaze ware

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Is a special knife like tool with a fairly flexible blade for cutting into moist and leather hard clay.

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Fettling knife

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A special tool with a wire loop used for carving and hollowing out clay forms.

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Loop tool

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The technique of adding small clay forms as decoration on the surface of pottery forms.

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Sprigging on

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Is a decoration technique that is created by carving lines into the clay or carving small areas out of the clay but not perforating it.

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Incising

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A furnace designed specifically for heating clay.

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Kiln

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The heating coils of ann electric kiln.

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Element

Question 19

The bottom of a piece that rests upon a surface. There are two kinds raised and flushed.

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Footing

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This is the process of when clay is hardened by heating it to a high temperture.

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Firing

Question 21

Glass forming chemicals that starts of as a liquid.

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Glaze

Question 22

Clay in liquid form.

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Slip clay

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A plaster disk or slab for clay work.

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Bat

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A clay form made from a mold.

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Casting

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Is a liqiud clay used in the process of forming objects with molds.

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Casting slip

Question 26

A term which usaully refers to the bone china of england.

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China

Question 27

Is a thin coat of color that will soak in the glaze ware or bisque ware.

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Conditioning coat

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A mixture of ceramic materials that is designed to soften and bend.

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Cone

Question 29

Is a small dry cone holder used when cones are placed on the shelf of the kiln to stand.

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Cone plaque