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