Pottery Vocab 1

__________: ware, such as vases, pots, bowls, or plates, formed on the wheel from moist clay and hardened by heat.

• Pottery
• Ceramics

__________: a fine-grained natural material containing silicates and other minerals which hardens when heated.

• Plastic

• Clay

• Dirt

__________: the art of making objects by combining clay, minerals, and heat

• Ceramics
• Bisqueware

• Greenware

__________: A mixture of silica, flux, and clay. Painted, dipped, poured, or sponged onto the surface of a ceramic piece, then fired to a very specific Cone (temperature).

• Paint

• Clay

• Glaze

__________: the forming of ceramic objects without the use of the potter's wheel.

• Throwing

• Handbuilding

__________: ceramics in its final state. Glaze is applied to bisqueware, then fired.

• Greenware

• Bone dry

• Glazeware

• Leatherhard

__________: to make pottery by hand on a wheel.

• Glaze

• Handbuilding

• Pottery

• Throwing

__________: a small hand-built bowl made by inserting the thumb in a ball of clay, rotating and pinching.

• Coil Pot

• Clay

• Pinch Pot

• Greenware

__________: dry, fragile clay before it is bisque fired.

• Bisqueware

• Greenware

• Glazeware

__________: unglazed clay which has been fired once.

• Bisqueware
• Greenware

• Glazeware