Ceramics And Pottery Terms

It also can be used to refer to factories that produce pottery pieces.

Ceramics and pottery terms.

Throwing creating ceramic shapes on the potter s wheel. 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. May be fired by wood coal sawdust electricity or gas. Published definitions of pottery include all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed except technical structural and refractory products.

Wedging a method of kneading clay to make it homogenous by cutting and rolling. 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. General term used to describe refractory pieces used to separate and support pottery during firing. Technically ceramics are those things made from materials which are permanently changed when heated.

Vitrification the firing of pottery to the point of glossification. 2 a ceramic material 3 a place where pottery wares are made. Pottery oven or furnace in which ceramic products are fired. Transparent glaze transmits light clearly.

Stoneware all ceramic wear fired between 2 100 and 2 300 degrees. 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.