ceramic vocabulary Flashcards
ceramic
having to do with clay or glass or making of objects from clay or glass.
slip
clay that has been warted downl; acts as glue in slip/score tcnquie.
score
to draw line into clay
wedging
the proces of kneading the clay so as to remove air pockets and create uniform consistityof clay
coil method
one of the oldest ways of forming pottery.
stoneware
highflre clay
slab
a flattened out pice of clay you may use rolling pin or slab roller.
bone dry
clay that is completydried out but not yet fired
greenware
a term used to describe unfired for the first time and with out any glaze
fettling knife
a special knife like tool with a farily flexiable blade foe cutting into moist and leather hard clay
loop tool
tool with a wooden handel and a wire loop at one or both ends used foe carving and howlling out clay forms
sprrigging- on
term used to describe the technique of adding small clay forms as decoration on the surface of pottry
incising
a decoration tech. created by carving lines into the clay or carving small areas out of the clay but not performing it
kiln
furnace desgined for heating clay to the temperatures necseesry to make it permanetly hard and ston like.
element
heating colis of an elctric kiln
