Worksheetsceramics vocabulary
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 11mins
The properties of clay that allow it to to be easily shaped and manipulated
slippery
plasticity
earthenware
greenware
A technique that uses long ropes of clay to make pottery:
scoring
coiling
slipping
wedging
The roughening of the surface of wet clay in order to attach another piece of wet clay
coiling
slipping
slab
scoring
A fluid mixture of clay and water
slide
slurp
score
slip
A stage in the drying process of clay when the clay is pliable but strong enough to handle
greenware
leather hard
bisqueware
ceramic
Unfired pottery
bisqueware
greenware
bone dry
ceramic
The process which changes clay into ceramic
scoring
greenware
firing
kiln
An insulated box which is heated to fire pottery and clay sculpture
scrapers
firing
kiln
easybake oven
A term applied to the first firing before glazing
bone dry
bisque
banana pancakes
plastic
A ceramic paint typically composed of opaque or transparent colors which becomes vitreous when fired.
slip
acrylics
glaze
tempera
Rolling out clay into rope like pieces
snake
macrame
coil
skinny
A decorative technique where the surface of the clay is scratched or drawn into
scrumble
scramming
sincognito
sgraffito
Clay that has been changed from a lump into a flat piece
slab
slub
slip
slap
A stage in the drying process of clay when all the water has completely evaporated
baked dry
desert dry
bone dry
bye bye dry
Made mostly of colored pigment and binders to keep it suspended as a liquid and can be applied to greenware
underblaze
colored slip
underdog
underglaze
method of kneading clay to get rid of air pockets in clay
wedging
walloping
squishing
washing
