Ceramics Vocab
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- Throwing
- Forming pottery of plastic flay on a potter's wheel
- Crawling
- Separation of the glaze surface
- Plasticity
- The quality of clay which allows it to be manipulated and still maintain its shape without cracking or sagging
- Kiln
- A furnace made of refractory clay materials for firing ceramic products
- Crazing
- An undesirable and excessive crackle in the glaze which penetrates through the glass to the clay body caused by non-uniform cooling and contraction rate
- Ceramics
- Any object that contains alumina and silica that has been heat treated
- Burnish
- To polish surface by rubbing with smooth object
- Lip
- Finished edge as in lip of a bowl
- China
- A loosely applied term referring to whiteware bodies fired at low porcelain temperature
- Flux
- Lowest melting compound in a glaze
- Slip
- A clay in liquid suspension
- Peeling
- separation of the glaze or slip from the body
- Clay
- A decomposed granite type rock
- Maturity
- The temperature of time at which a clay or clay body develops the desirable characteristics of maximum nonporosity and hardness
- Glaze
- A liquid suspension of finely ground materials, when fired the glass ingredients melt together to form a glassy surface coating
- Grog
- Hand fired clay which has been crushed or ground to various particle sizes
- Leather Hard
- The condition of the raw ware when most of the moisture has left the body but when it is still soft enough to be carved or burnished easily
- Foot
- The ring like base of a ceramic piece
- Green Ware
- Pottery which has not been bisque fired
- Heat Treatment
- The effect of temperature and time working upon clay and glaze compounds
- Cone
- Small triangular shaped cones made of ceramic materials which are compounded to bend and melt at specific temperatures, used to determine heat treatment within the kiln
- Coil Building
- A hand method of forming pottery by building up the walls with rope-like rolls of clay called coils
- Kiln Wash
- A protective coating of refractory materials applied to the surface of the shelves and the kiln floor to prevent excess glaze from fusing the ware to the kiln
- Bone China
- A hard translucent chinaware
- Bisque Ware
- Any ceramics that has gone through a low firing but is unglazed
- Pinch Pot
- pot made by pinching the clay with the fingers and thumb
- Rib
- A tool of wood, bone, metal, plastic, rubber, which is used to assist in the shaping the pot or compact clay
- Engobe
- A prepared slip which is half way between a glaze and clay
- Short
- A body or clay lacking in plasticity
- Earthenware
- Low fired pottery, usually red or tan in color
- Kaolin
- Pure clay or china clay
- Bat
- A disc or slab of plaster on which pottery is formed or dried
- Glaze Firing
- A firing cycle to the temperature which the glaze materials will melt to form a glass like surface coating
- Bisque Fire
- The first firing of unglazed ware