ceramics vocabulary

The properties of clay that allow it to to be easily shaped and manipulated

• slippery

• plasticity

• earthenware

• greenware

The procedure of forming and shaping clay by squeezing the clay between your thumb and finger.

• pinch
• coil
• slab
• roll

A technique that uses long ropes of clay to make pottery:

• scoring

• coiling

• slipping

• wedging

The roughening of the surface of wet clay in order to attach another piece of wet clay

• coiling

• slipping

• slab

• scoring

A fluid mixture of clay and water

• slide

• slurp

• score

• slip

A stage in the drying process of clay when the clay is pliable but strong enough to handle

• greenware

• leather hard

• bisqueware

• ceramic

Unfired pottery

• bisqueware

• greenware

• bone dry

• ceramic

The process which changes clay into ceramic

• scoring

• greenware

• firing

• kiln

An insulated box which is heated to fire pottery and clay sculpture

• scrapers

• firing

• kiln

• easybake oven

A term applied to the first firing before glazing

• bone dry

• bisque

• banana pancakes

• plastic