Ceramics And Pottery Terms

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.

Ceramics and pottery terms.

It also can be used to refer to factories that produce pottery pieces. 1 the art and wares made by potters. May be fired by wood coal sawdust electricity or gas. Wedging a method of kneading clay to make it homogenous by cutting and rolling.

The term used for creating pottery using the potter s wheel is throwing. 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. Technically ceramics are those things made from materials which are permanently changed when heated.

Published definitions of pottery include all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed except technical structural and refractory products. Throwing creating ceramic shapes on the potter s wheel. Transparent glaze transmits light clearly. 2 a ceramic material 3 a place where pottery wares are made.

Vitrification the firing of pottery to the point of glossification. And 4 the business of the potter.