Dream box

What is the best ceramic hand building technique to create a box?

• Pinch pot

• Slab

• coil

• wedging

What is the raised surface design on a clay piece called?    

• embossment

• incising

• slip

• slab

What is incising?

• scratching the surface of two pieces of clay to stick together

• Cutting the clay with toggle wire

• Surface decoration made by scratching, cutting, or carving lines into clay at various depths.

• Lining up the slabs to create a bond

________ is scratching into clay before adding clay slip on top to create a type of hold between two different dry types of clay. 

• incising

• scoring

• slipping

• wedging

What stage of clay must your slabs be before slipping and scoring together?

• bisqueware

• bone dry

• leather hard

• glazeware

Why is it important to create a template before starting your dream box?

• To meet the requirements of the project

• To make sure all slabs are going to line up correctly

• because clay gets smaller as it dries

• all answers are correct

Why should you attach a coil onto the bottom of a flat lid?

(a)  

How should you store slabs of clay to get leather hard?

• With wet paper towel in a sealed bag

• wrapped in foil

• leave it to air dry

• in a bag that is loosely over the top of them

What is the purpose of glazing other than adding color?

• It makes them waterproof

• It seals them

• It makes them food safe

• All answers are correct

What would you do differently if you made a dream box again?

(a)