clay vocab Flashcards
The clay is easily workable and bendable.
Green Ware
The clay is still workable but is no longer bendable.
Leather hard
Clay is dry- no longer workable- at this stage it is ready to be fired.
Bone dry
To create teeth on both sides of the clay.
Score
Saturated clay that works as glue for the clay.
Slip
Cooking the clay/changing the clay’s chemical properties
Firing
The machine you cook the clay in.
Kiln
The first fire- clay reaches roughly 1900* - this is a low fire/half fired.
Bisque (▲05)
A pot created by putting your thumb into the middle and pinching
around the sides/ the oldest form of pottery.
Pinch pots
An evenly rolled long narrow strip of clay- it resembles a snake.
Coils
An even flattened piece of clay.
Slab
Having height and width
2 Dimensions
Having height, width and depth
3 Dimensions
Carving or taking clay away from a sculpture.
Subtractive Sculpting
Adding clay to a sculpture.
Additive Sculpting