The act of making artwork and sculptures using clay
A machine that presses clay through a hole to make it into a coil
Glazing pottery by immersion in a glaze suspension.
thin slab of wood, plaster, or plastic used to support pottery forms during throwing, attached to the head of the potter's wheel by clay body or "bat pins".
A machine that presses down on unformed clay and reshapes it into a slab of a certain width
A group of hydrous aluminium phyllosilicate minerals. Often also used to refer to the clay body, which sometimes may only contain small amounts of clay minerals.
A process in which the joining surfaces of clay and glaze interact during firing ending in a thin combined layer of the two.
The condition of a clay or clay body when it has been partially dried to the point where all shrinkage has been completed.
Glaze that has no opacity and shows the color of the original creation
Glaze that reflects light after being fired in the kiln
A pot formed by pressing a hole in a ball of clay and pressing against the inside of the ball with ones fingers
A furnace for the firing of ceramics.
The act of adding low-relief clay forms to slurried, scored leather-hard surfaces for embellishment.
A clay tool with wire loops at each end used to carve clay.
A slip coating applied to a ceramic body for imparting colour, opacity or other characteristics. Sometimes distinguished from slip by the addition of non-clay materials, and sometimes not. It may subsequently be covered with a glaze
A clay designed for a special purpose. It is created by blending different clays of by adding to clays other materials, such as feldspar and flint in order to produce a desired workability, maturing temperature, or finished result. A clay body is the result of mans technology.
The process of heating pottery in a kiln to bring the glaze or clay body to maturity'
A procedure for preparing clay or a clay body by hand: the lump of clay is repeatedly thrown down on a work bench; between each operation the lump is turned and sometimes cut through and rejoined in a different orientation. The object is to disperse the water more uniformly, to remove lamination and to remove air.