Ceramics

Question 1

What is handbuilding?

Answer 1

Pottery done by hand w/o a wheel.

Question 2

What is pinching?

Answer 2

Pinching the clay to shape it

Question 3

What is coil?

Answer 3

Rolling out coils and joining them together with tools/fingers

Question 4

What is molding?

Answer 4

Flat slabs are pressed into molds

Question 5

What is slip?

Answer 5

Slip is liquid clay that acts as glue

Question 6

What does it mean to score and slip?

Answer 6

Cutting indents into leather hard clay and using slip to stick it together

Question 7

What are the stages of dryness?

Answer 7

Wet, leather hard, bone dry

Question 8

What is sgraffito?

Answer 8

Leather hard clay is coated with a colored slip, and then scraped to make patterns through the slip

Question 9

What is wax resist?

Answer 9

putting a wax medium over glaze

Question 10

slip trailing

Answer 10

putting slip on greenware through a nozzle like a cake

Question 11

stamping

Answer 11

stamping designs into clay

Question 12

majolica

Answer 12

greenware, tin enamel to make

Question 13

mille fiore

Answer 13

creating design by making patterns in rolls and cutting them up like cookies

Question 14

firing

Answer 14

heating the pottery to a specific temperature to change the clay/ surface

Question 15

bisque

Answer 15

pottery fired once w/o glaze

Question 16

greenware

Answer 16

not fired pottery

Question 17

glaze

Answer 17

glass-like coating used to decorate and seal pores of clay

Question 18

reduction

Answer 18

kiln firing lacking oxygen. makes carbon monoxide, forming color changes in clay.

Question 19

oxidation

Answer 19

kiln firing w full oxygen (like electric kilns)

Question 20

raku

Answer 20

Japanese firing technique, takes greenware and takes temperature up to 2000 really fast

Question 21

mouth

Answer 21

opening at top of vase

Question 22

neck

Answer 22

narrower part of vase leading from body to mouth

Question 23

body

Answer 23

main, largest part of vase

Question 24

foot

Answer 24

part of vase that reaches the floor

Question 25

ceramic

Answer 25

having to do with clay or glass or the making of

Question 26

wedging

Answer 26

kneading clay to make it consistent and to remove air pockets

Question 27

bone dry

Answer 27

completely dry unfired clay

Question 28

glazeware

Answer 28

bisque wear that’s been glazed and fired

Question 29

fettling knife

Answer 29

special knifey thing w a flexible blade for wet/leather hard clay

Question 30

loop tool

Answer 30

wooden handle, wire loop at one or both ends, used for carving and hollowing out clay

Question 31

sprigging on/applied decoration

Answer 31

adding small clay forms as decoration on surface

Question 32

incising

Answer 32

carving lines into clay, small areas

Question 33

element

Answer 33

heating coils of kiln

Question 34

footing

Answer 34

foot. can be raised or flush

Question 35

bat

Answer 35

board to work on

Question 36

casting

Answer 36

clay form made in a mold

Question 37

china

Answer 37

bone china of England, associated with vitreous white wares and porcelain

Question 38

conditioning coat

Answer 38

thin coat of color that soaks into green/bisque ware

Question 39

cone

Answer 39

a mix of ceramic stuff designed to soften and bend when temp reached in kiln

Question 40

cone plaque

Answer 40

holds cones

Question 41

earthenware

Answer 41

low-fire clay body fired to maturity at approx 2000

Question 42

food-safe

Answer 42

product tested and determined to be food-safe

Question 43

gloss

Answer 43

shiny glass like finish

Question 44

kiln wash

Answer 44

refractory coating applied to the top of the kiln shelves to protect them from glaze

Question 45

leather hard

Answer 45

greenware allowed to be firm but still kinda wet

Question 46

matte

Answer 46

soft finish w no or little shine

Question 47

opaque

Answer 47

color which does not allow other colors to show through

Question 48

peep holes

Answer 48

small holes in side of kiln used to view shelf cones and ventilating kiln

Question 49

pin holes

Answer 49

tiny tiny holes in work

Question 50

plasticity

Answer 50

flexibility of clay

Question 51

posts (kiln)

Answer 51

articles that support kiln shelves

Question 52

semi matte

Answer 52

satin like surface w slight sheen

Question 53

semi opaque

Answer 53

colors which only allow dark colors to show through

Question 54

semi transparent

Answer 54

slightly colored or speckled colors that allows colors to shine through distorted

Question 55

shelf cone temperature

Answer 55

cone temp fired on shelf

Question 56

sponge

Answer 56

used to decorate and clean greenware

Question 57

transparent

Answer 57

clear base colors which are free from cloudiness and distortion

Question 58

under glaze

Answer 58

a color applied to greenware and covered w a glaze

Question 59

vent holes

Answer 59

small holes made by piercing wet GW w needle tool when two pieces of ware have been attached to let go of air

Question 60

pinch pots

Answer 60

making a pot out of a ball of clay made by stroking and pinching

Question 61

terra cotta

Answer 61

brown orangey earthenware clay used for ceramic sculpture

Question 62

wheel thrown

Answer 62

clay piece made on a spinning wheel