Clay and Glaze

A furnace or oven built of heat resistant materials for firing pottery.  

• Microwave
• Kennel
• Kiln
• Forge

A glassy coating that has been melted onto a clay surface by the use of heat. 

• Glaze
• Slip
• Grog
• Ceramic

Clay with a lot of water added to it that is used as a sort of glue to hold clay pieces together 

• Grog
• Glaze
• Slime
• Slip

Clay that is stiff, but is still damp.

• Leather-hard
• Greenware
• Bisque
• Grog

Clay that has dried and is ready to be fired in a kiln. 

• Leather-hard

• Bone dry (also known as Greenware)

• Bisque

• Grog

 Method of kneading a mass of clay to get rid of air and lumps.

• Scoring
• Slipping
• Wedging
• Glazing

How do you connect two pieces of clay?

• Just stick it together

• Slip and Score

• Smooth them together

• There is no point in putting clay together

What are some techniques of creating hand-built forms out of clay?

• kneading, wedging and spiraling
• pinching, coiling and slab building
• handling clay

Clay that has been fired in the kiln the first time is known as what?

• Wet clay

• Dry clay

• Greenware

• Bisqueware

The coil building method is when you

• pinch and pull the clay to create something

• make long, snake-like pieces of clay to build up a vessel or object

• make slabs and piece them together