vocabulary

Question 1

ceramic

Answer 1

having to do with clay or glass or the making of object from clay or glass

Question 2

slip

Answer 2

clay that has been watered down; acts as glue in slip/score technique.

Question 3

score

Answer 3

to draw or make lines into clay

Question 4

slip/score technique

Answer 4

method used in hand building to connect two pieces of clay together

Question 5

wedging

Answer 5

is the process of kneading the clay so as to remove air pockets and create iniform consistency of clay

Question 6

coil method

Answer 6

one of the oldest ways of forming pottery. long strands of clay which are laid on top of each other and joined through blending coil to coil. Coil piece can be almost any shape and any size

Question 7

stoneware

Answer 7

high-fire clay. stoneware is waterproof even without glaze; the resulting ware is sturdier than earthenware

Question 8

slab

Answer 8

a flattened out piece of clay; you may use a rolling pin or slab roller to achieve a slab of clay.Clay slabs cut to shape and joined together using scoring and wet caly called slip.Slab can be draped over or into form, rolled around cylinders or built-up into geometric from.

Question 9

bone dry

Answer 9

clay that is completely dried but not yet fired

Question 10

greenware

Answer 10

A term used to describe unfired clay objects in general

Question 11

bisque ware

Answer 11

clay objects that have been fired for the first time and without any glaze applied to them.

Question 12

glaze ware

Answer 12

bisque ware that has been glaze then fired

Question 13

fettling knife

Answer 13

is a special knife-like tool with a fairly flexible blade for cutting into moist and leather-hard clay

Question 14

loop tool

Answer 14

a special tool with a wooden handle and a wire loop at one or both ends, used for carving and hollowing out clay forms

Question 15

springging-on

Answer 15

A term used to describe the technique of adding small clay forms as decoration on the surface of pottery forms; also called appleid decoration

Question 16

incising

Answer 16

is a decoration technique, created by carving lines into the clay or carving small areas out of the clay but not perforating it

Question 17

kiln

Answer 17

a furnace designed specifically for heating clay to the temperature necessary to make it permanently hard stone like.

Question 18

element

Answer 18

the heating coils of an electric kiln.

Question 19

footing

Answer 19

the bottom of a piece that rests upon a surface (may be wheel thrown or hand built) There are two kinds: raised and flush

Question 20

firing

Answer 20

Clay hardened by heating it to a high temperature, fusing the clay particles.

Question 21

glaze

Answer 21

Glass- forming chemicals, usually with colorants added, that applied in liquid form to bisque ware and fired in a kiln, form a pleasing, usually glossy coating to the surface of the clay.

Question 22

slip clay

Answer 22

clay in liquid form.

Question 23

bat

Answer 23

a plaster disk or slab for clay work

Question 24

casting

Answer 24

a clay form made from a mold. May also be referred to “plaster castings”

Question 25

casting slip

Answer 25

is a liquid clay used in the process of forming object with molds. Also referred to as “slip”

Question 26

china

Answer 26

A term which usually refer to the bone china of england, but also is associated with viterous white wares and porcelain

Question 27

conditioning coat

Answer 27

is a thin coat of color that will soak into the greenware or bisque ware

Question 28

cone

Answer 28

A mixture of ceramic material that is desighned to soften and bend when the proper misture of time and temperature is reached in the interior of the kiln