25-26 Ceramics

This term refers to the three (3) building methods using only the hands and simple tools- not the potter's wheel.

• Wedging

• Throwing

• Score and Slip

• Handbuilding

The term used for creating pottery using the potter’s wheel.

• Wedging

• Throwing

• Score and Slip

• Coil

Throwing clay down on the floor 20 times to remove air pockets, make clay more consistent & align kaolinite minerals.

• Throwing

• Wedging

• Score and Slip

• Handbuilding

One of 3 methods of shaping clay by inserting the thumb of 1 hand into the clay and pressing lightly w/ thumb & fingers.

• Pinch

• Coil

• Slab

• Throwing

Building ceramic forms by rolling thin ropes of clay and joining them w/ fingers or a tool.

• Pinch

• Slab

• Coil

• Wedge

Term for pressed or rolled flat sections of clay

• Pinch

• Coil

• Throwing

• Slab

Liquid clay, about the consistency of thick cream, used as a sort of "glue"

• Elmer's Glue

• Slip

• Wedge

• Wood Glue

Method of joining two pieces of clay together. First, by roughening the surface, then by adding clay “glue”

• Score and Slip

• Score and Slab

• Wedge and Slab

• Slip and Slab

What is wrong with this pinch pot?

• They pushed down too far in the beginning

• They had long finger nails while pinching

• Nothing is wrong with it

• They didn't push down far enough in the beginning.

What is wrong with this pinch pot?

• A) They had long finger nails while pinching

• B) Nothing is wrong with it

• C) They didn't push down far enough in the beginning

• D) They set it on the table while pinching.