Ceramics And Pottery Terms
Pottery oven or furnace in which ceramic products are fired.
Ceramics and pottery terms. 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. 1 the art and wares made by potters. May be fired by wood coal sawdust electricity or gas. Vitrification the firing of pottery to the point of glossification.
Technically ceramics are those things made from materials which are permanently changed when heated. Throwing creating ceramic shapes on the potter s wheel. Stoneware all ceramic wear fired between 2 100 and 2 300 degrees. Transparent glaze transmits light clearly.
2 a ceramic material 3 a place where pottery wares are made. General term used to describe refractory pieces used to separate and support pottery during firing. And 4 the business of the potter. It also can be used to refer to factories that produce pottery pieces.
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.