Pottery Flashcards

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3 important ceramic materials are? (not clay)

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Glass, plaster, cement

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The most significant material used in ceramics is?

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Clay

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What was the beginning of the ceramics industry?

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Pottery

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Studio pottery is the product of individual?

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Potter

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The most universal material is?

A

Clay

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How much of earths surface is clay?

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75%

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Ware means?

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Pottery

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Damp clay is ____ or _____ to make a workable lump

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Wedged or kneaded

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Clay often has to be sifted to remove impurities like?

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Rocks, pebbles, twigs, sand, roots

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In the beginning of pottery many shops were near?

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Rivers and streams

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10
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How much clay is mines in the us each year?

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100 million tons

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Iron-riched clay are normally what color?

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Red

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Clay particles are called

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Platelets

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13
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What is the name of a clay that is too plastic?

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Bentonite

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What ingredients makes clay slippery?

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Organic matter

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What 3 essentials are the properties of clay?

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Plasticity, porosity, vitrify

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What does vitrification mean?

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Process of becoming glass like

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A glassy layer melted into a pot to seal the pores or decorate the ware is known as

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Vitrification

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That colors is stoneware

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Yellow and grey

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Earthenware is a ______-temperature clay.

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Porcelain is fired at a range at

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2250-26000 degrees

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Stoneware and earthenware clays are usually easy to work with because?

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Most materials become ___ and deform before they melt.

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Are the water I’d plasticity and mechanical water the same?

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Feldspar is the granite type rock that eventually becomes clay. List 4 other rocks containing feldspar
Granite, syenite, gabbro, basalt
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Does sand and ordinary dirt have chemical water?
Yes
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What is the most common and valuable clays?
Kaolin
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The aids in and helps cause melting
Flax
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Two clays that have weathered without absorbing much iron and alkali are?
Ball clay and secondary kaolin
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Adobe is used for?
Bricks
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Is Adobe fired?
No
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A very course clay and used for large sculpture
Terra cotta
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Mechanical weathering can turn clay in pot what colors?
Brown and red
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Primary and _____ mean the same thing.
Recidu
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Secondary and _____ mans the same thing
Sedimentary
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China clay and kaolin fire to what color?
White
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What category of clay is the largest
Secondary
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What 3 clays are seldom used by potters?
Adobe, bentonite, terra cotta.
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Describe the process of a pinch pot
-get a fistful ball of clay -wedge it on burlap -pound it into a ball -use your fingers to pinch the clay forming it into a pot. -fire it -glaze it -put back in kiln DONE!
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In this process a tin enamel is applied to a ceramic piece. Then color is painted on it, and is glazed with a clear coat.
Majolica
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Decoration method. Slip is applied to green ware through a tube or nozzle, like icing a cake
Slip trailing