ceramics vocabulary

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

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

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

A fluid mixture of clay and water

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

Unfired pottery

The process which changes clay into ceramic

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

A term applied to the first firing before glazing