Pottery

The final stage of greenware dried to a completely dry state and ready to be fired. In this stage, the clay is very fragile.

• Bonedry
• Greenware
• Bisque
• Glazed

Pottery that has been fired, but not yet glazed

• Leatherhard
• Greenware
• Bisque
• Glazed

A coating that has been matured to the glassy state on a formed ceramic article, or the material or mixture from which the coating is made.

• Acrylic
• Glaze
• Pottery
• Glassware

A furnace for the firing of ceramics

• Boiler
• Furnace
• Oven
• Kiln

The term used when referring to forming or shaping on a potter's wheel.

• Earthbending
• Throwing
• Spinning
• Forming

The process of heating pottery in a kiln to bring the glaze or clay body to maturity'

• Firing
• Cooking
• Drying
• Baking

A suspension of clay, clay body or glaze in water.

• Mud
• Slip
• Clay-water
• Glue

A technique where the leather hard clay is polished with a hard instrument to force the smallest clay particles to the surface creating a soft sheen.

• smoothing
• polishing
• burnishing
• shining

The properties of a material that allow it to be shaped and to retain its shape.

• Mallability
• Plasticity
• Bendability
• Tenacity

The decrease in the size of a clay object due to drying and firing. 

• Shrinkage
• Reduction
• Decrese
• Withdrawal