Ceramics And Pottery Terms

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Ceramics and pottery terms.

Published definitions of pottery include all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed except technical structural and refractory products. Vitrification the firing of pottery to the point of glossification. Stoneware all ceramic wear fired between 2 100 and 2 300 degrees. Wedging a method of kneading clay to make it homogenous by cutting and rolling.

Pinch in ceramics is a method of shaping clay by inserting the thumb of one hand into the clay and lightly pinching with the thumb and fingers while slowly rotating the ball in the palm of the other hand. Technically ceramics are those things made from materials which are permanently changed when heated. Pottery oven or furnace in which ceramic products are fired. For example clay has chemically bonded water in it which will cause it to slake down disintegrate when a dried clay object is put in water.

General term used to describe refractory pieces used to separate and support pottery during firing. Although this term is usually used interchangeably with ceramics it more precisely refers to ceramic objects that have a container shape such as pots planters and tureens. 1 the art and wares made by potters. Throwing creating ceramic shapes on the potter s wheel.

2 a ceramic material 3 a place where pottery wares are made. It also can be used to refer to factories that produce pottery pieces.