Techniques/ Equipment

Question 1

Wedge or Wedging

Answer 1

The process of needing plastic clay with the fingers and palms of the hands in a spiral motion, which forces out trapped air pockets and develops a uniform texture or mixture of the clay body

Question 2

Pinch Technique

Answer 2

a hand building method of construction where a gal of claying the plastic state is repeatedly pinched and turned between the thumb and four fingers create a small bowl or pot

Question 3

Coil technique

Answer 3

A hand building method of construction, which utilizes rolls of clay or coil rope in the plastic state to build up walls that are the joined together either internally or externally.

Question 4

Slab technique

Answer 4

A hand building method of construction using clay in the leather hard state that utilizes flat pieces of clay that must be joined together. The technique is similar to creating a structure with wooden boards.

Question 5

Throwing technique

Answer 5

a method of forming clay where a ball of clay is hallowed out on a revolving wheel head.

Question 6

score

Answer 6

To scratch the surface of something to make it ruff. When done properly two pieces may be joined together to become one.

Question 7

Hand building

Answer 7

The forming of ceramics without a wheel, (pinch, coil, slab)

Question 8

Damp Box

Answer 8

A cabinet in which unfinished clay objects are store to slow their drying. We also use plastic bags to keep clay damp.

Question 9

Extruder

Answer 9

clay pressed or pugged through dye or even simply through corse sieve can be used for applied decoration of many kinds.

Question 10

Pug Mill

Answer 10

A machine with a paddle for grinding and mixing plastic clay. The clay is mixed within the barrel and forced forward through the narrow channeling. (Don’t add bone dry or bisque fired clay into pug mill.)

Question 11

Bench wheel

Answer 11

a small portable turntable for rotating pottery in any state (except slip) in order to work on or decorate the pottery. Also commonly referred to as banding wheel because it is used to apply bands of color or texture

Question 12

slab roller

Answer 12

a large piece of equipment that allows the artist to flatten out clay evenly throughout. The slab roller replaces the technique of using sticks and a kitchen rolling pin.

Question 13

Kiln

Answer 13

A furnace for firing ceramic products. Essentially a box of refractory bricks, into or around which heat is introduced either by combustion or radiant heat.

Question 14

Wedging board

Answer 14

a plaster table or slab covered with canvas used to knead clay

Question 15

Wheel rotates _____ for right handed people

Answer 15

Counter clockwise

Question 16

Walls made on the wheel are “____” thick

Answer 16

1 quarter inch thick

Question 17

if you are a right handed person, and you are pulling up walls to make a cylender your _____ hand will be on the outside

Answer 17

Right