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Clay Part 1
Term | Definition |
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Pinch Pot | Push your thumb into the center, and this will help you keep the walls of the piece at an even thickness. |
Kiln | An oven for heating clay pottery |
Glaze | A thin coating of glass making materials that melt when fired. |
Slab | A basic way of building with clay or built-up into forms. |
Coil Pots | Layered one rope upon an other to create the walls of the pot |
Scoring | Use any pointed clay tool make X shaped makrs into the clay where you use glue two pieces of clay together |
Slip | another name for clay glue; simply wet sticky clay |
Wedging | Kneading the clay by cutting and reforming it in order to expel air and blend all the ingredients |
Clay | A very fine soil that is moldable when moist but hard when fired |
Pottery | Objects made with clay |