ceramics

Clay body

Any blend of clays and nonplastic ceramic materials that is workable and that has certain firing properties. They are formulated to serve particular purposes and to achieve maturity at various firing temperatures. See earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain.

Clay

A variety of earthy materials formed by the decomposition of granite

Flux

A state of continual change or movement

Grog

What prevents shrinkage

Grog

Fired clay ground to various mesh sizes.

Primary Clay

Clay found in nature that was formed in place rather than transported by the action of water. Also called residual clay.

Secondary clay

Clay, which has been moved by water or wind from its source and settled elsewhere in deposits collecting minerals on the way.

rib

A curved tool made of wood, metal, or plastic, used for shaping, scraping, or smoothing clay objects.

felting knife

Knife shaped tool used to cut clay

scoring tools

used to scratch surface of two pieces of clay before joining together with clay slip

no

Do you use water to smooth clay

coiling

A method of forming pottery or sculpture from rolls of clay melded together to create the walls.

feldspar

Any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium

rock

What was clay truly made out of in the beginning

wet/plastic

The order of clay which is first

leather hard

What is the second stage of clay

bone dry

What is the third stage of clay

bisque

What is the fourth stage

glaze

What is the fifth stage

wet/plastic, leather hard, bone dry, bisque, glaze

What are all the stages in order of clay making

hand building

Building pots using only the hands and simple tools