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| Pottery which has been fired once, without glaze, to a temperature just before vitrification |
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| First firing, without glaze. Slips can be used in a bisque firing |
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| Technique to move the clay in to a symmetrical rotating axis in the middle of a wheel head so you can throw it |
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| A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery |
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| A pyramid composed of clay and glaze, made to melt and bend at specific temperatures. It is used in a kiln to determine the end of a firing or in some electric kilns it shuts off a kiln setter |
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| To heat a clay object in a kiln to a specific temperature |
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| A thin coating of glass. An impervious silicate coating, which is developed in clay ware by the fusion under heat of inorganic materials |
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| The final firing, with glaze |
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| Unfired pottery. Ready to be bisque fired |
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| A furnace of refractory clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass |
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| Stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip. For example, this is the stage handles are applied to mugs |
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| The quality of clay which allows it to be manipulated into different shapes without cracking or breaking |
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| Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building |
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| Clay mixed with water with a mayonnaise consistency. Used in casting and decoration |
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| All ceramic wear fired between 2,100 and 2,300 degrees |
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| Creating ceramic shapes on the potter’s whee |
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| The firing of pottery to the point of glossification |
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| A method of kneading clay to make it homogenous by cutting and rolling |
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