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.

Technically ceramics are those things made from materials which are permanently changed when heated. Throwing creating ceramic shapes on the potter s wheel. 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.

May be fired by wood coal sawdust electricity or gas. 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. 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. Pottery oven or furnace in which ceramic products are fired.

1 the art and wares made by potters. 2 a ceramic material 3 a place where pottery wares are made. And 4 the business of the potter. Vitrification the firing of pottery to the point of glossification.

Transparent glaze transmits light clearly. It also can be used to refer to factories that produce pottery pieces.