Ceramics Knowledge

What things must you do to attach the clay?

• Score place & piece you are attaching

• Add slip

• push pieces together only

• Let it dry before attaching

What are the firing stages of clay?

• Greenware, Bisqueware, Glazeware

• Glazeware, Bisqueware, Greenware

• Bisqueware, Greenware, Glazeware

• Greenware, Glazeware, Bisqueware

Techniques of Building: Hand Making (squishing clay with fingers)

• Slab

• Cutting

• Pinching

• Coil

a flat piece of clay

• pinching

• ceramics

• slab

• leather-hard

clay that is completely dry and ready to be put in the kiln

• glaze

• bone-dry

• scoring

• slip

____ makes the clay consistent and takes out air bubbles

• Air Drying

• Throwing

• Wedging

• Kicking

heating clay object in a kiln

• firing

• slab

• bone-dry

• leather-hard

putting small cuts in clay in order to hold pieces together

• slip

• ceramics

• bone-dry

• scoring

The Object used to heat clay is a….

• Kiln

• Home Oven

• Microwave

• Fire

The units in which temperature is measured when referring to clay is called…

• Feet

• Fahrenheit

• Cones

• Celsius