ceramics vocabulary

The roughening or scratching of the surface of wet clay in order to attach another piece of wet clay

• coiling

• slipping

• slab

• scoring

Unfired pottery

• bisqueware

• greenware

• bone dry

• ceramic

The procedure of forming and shaping clay by squeezing the clay between your thumb and finger.

• pinch
• coil
• slab
• roll

A ceramic paint typically composed of opaque or transparent colors which becomes vitreous when fired.

• slip

• acrylics

• glaze

• tempera

A technique that uses long ropes of clay to make pottery:

• scoring

• coiling

• slipping

• wedging

An insulated box which is heated to fire pottery and clay sculpture

• scrapers

• firing

• kiln

• easybake oven

Rolling clay with a rolling pin and cutting out shapes to build.

• slab

• slub

• slip

• slap

The process which changes clay into ceramic

• scoring

• greenware

• firing

• kiln

method of kneading clay to get rid of air pockets in clay

• wedging

• walloping

• squishing

• washing

A stage in the drying process of clay when the clay is pliable but strong enough to polish and handle.

• greenware

• leather hard

• bisqueware

• ceramic