Ceramic Terms

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3. In this process, a tin enamel is 1. In this technique, flat slabs of applied to a ceramic piece, then clay are pressed into molds in order color is painted on it and finally, it to create various shapes or forms. is glazed with a clear glaze. 2. 2 words. In this decorative 5. 2 words. This is another technique, patterns or designs are decoration method. Slip (a liquid created by brushing a wax medium clay) is applied to the greenware over an area of clay, slip, or glaze to through a tube or nozzle, much like resist the final glaze application icing a cake. when the wax is dry. 7. This is the technique of building 4. 2 words. This is a technique for ceramic forms by rolling out coils, creating multibples of the same or ropes, of clay and joining them design using colored clays. together with the fingers or a tool. 6. 2 words. One of the stages of 8. A kiln firing with a full supply of dryness. When constructing with oxygen. Electric kilns are this type. clay, this stage is preferable. 11. A kiln firing in which there is 9. "Pinch" in ceramics is a method insufficient oxygen to consume of shaping clay by inserting the thefree carbon emanating from the thumb of one hand into the clay and heated glaze and clay, resulting in lightly pinching with the thumb and the formation of carbon monoxide. fingers while slowly rotating the Oxygen-starved carbon monoxide ball in the palm of the other hand. pulls oxygen from the clay body [See resources for links to tutorials and glaze, forming color changes in on how to create. See the the coloring oxides. Assignment 2 page for examples of 14. This term refers to ceramic ware pinch pots.] Pots made in this that has been fired once without manner are called "pinch pots". glaze. 10. This refers to ceramic ware that 15. This term refers to the one of has not been fired. several techniques of building pots 12. This is the technique of pressing using the only the hands and simple forms into the clay to get decorative tools rather than the potters wheel. effects. The term used for creating pottery 13. This is the process of heating using the potter's wheel is the pottery to a specific temperature "throwing". in order to bring about a particular 17. A type of firing started in Japan. change in the clay or the surface. Used mainly in the "tea ceremony". 14. 2 words. One of the stages of 18. This is a decorating technique dryness. Clay must be in this stage developed centuries ago. In its in order to go into the kiln for simplest embodiment, leather-hard firing. clay is coated with an engobe or slip 16. This is one of the stages of of contrasting color and then a dryness of clay. It refers to the state pattern or picture is added by in which the clay is easily molded carving through or scraping off the and formed. slip to reveal the clay underneath. 19. A glass-like surface coating for ceramics that is used to decorate and seal the pores of the fired clay.