Ceramics Word Search
This ceramics word search holds forty words from the pottery studio: clay, the wheel and the kiln, the slab, the coil and the pinch pot, slip and glaze, and the stages from greenware to bisque.
Clay goes through stages before it becomes ceramic. Wedging it first, by kneading, pushes out air bubbles that could burst in the kiln. Fresh pieces dry to leather hard, firm enough to carve and trim, then to greenware, bone dry and still fragile. A first firing turns greenware into bisque, which can no longer be softened with water, and a second firing melts the glaze into a coat of glass. Slip is clay thinned with water, used like glue after you score both edges.
Fired clay is older than farming. Pieces of pottery from Xianrendong Cave in China are about 20,000 years old, and the potter's wheel appeared in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC. Porcelain was first made in China from kaolin, a white clay named after Gaoling, a hill near the porcelain city of Jingdezhen; Europeans could not copy it until a workshop in Saxony found the recipe around 1708. Raku comes from Japan, where potters pull tea bowls from the kiln while they are still glowing.
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- Bisque
- Bowl
- Celadon
- Centering
- Clay
- Coil
- Crackle
- Earthenware
- Firing
- Foot
- Glaze
- Greenware
- Grog
- Handle
- Kaolin
- Kiln
- Leather Hard
- Mold
- Mug
- Needle Tool
- Pinch Pot
- Pitcher
- Plaster
- Porcelain
- Raku
- Score
- Sgraffito
- Slab
- Slip
- Sponge
- Stoneware
- Teapot
- Terracotta
- Throwing
- Tile
- Trimming
- Vase
- Vessel
- Wedging
- Wheel