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Tea Tootaler is a ceramice teapot in the form of a musical horn. Hand-building creates ceramic art objects entirely by the artist's hands alone or with simple tools. Click to open Glossary. Stoneware is a type of clay used to produce hard, durable, nonporous ceramic objects by firing to high kiln heat. Click to open Glossary. Wheel throwing makes ceramic objects from raw clay on a potter's wheel. Click to open Glossary. Hand-building creates ceramic art objects entirely by the artist's hands alone or with simple tools. Click to open Glossary. Silk-screening is a method for transfers images to the surface of a ceramic work. Click to open Glossary. Clay slabs are made by rolling or pressing pieces of clay flat for use in hand-building. Click to open Glossary. Plaster molds are used to impress clay to make negative images of the original. Click to open Glossary. Firing converts soft greenware to hard ceramic objects by exposure to high heat in a kiln. Click to open Glossary. Cone is a pyramid of clay that bends at a specific temperature, used to ensure optimal temperature for a ceramic work being fired in a kiln. Click to open Glossary. Glaze is colored or clear liquid coating applied to a ceramic work to decorate or seal. Click to open Glossary. Refiring involves repetitive firing at lower and lower temperatures to prevent damage to prefired glazes. Click to open Glossary. Luster is liquid coating applied to prefired glazes to impart a metallic sheen. Click to open Glossary.

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Creative process illustrated. Hand-building creates ceramic art objects entirely by the artist's hand alone or with simple tools. Click to open Glossary. Stoneware is a type of clay used to produce hard, durable, nonporous ceramic works by firing at high kiln heat. Click to open Glossary. Paperclay is an admixture of clay and paper used to produce strong, lightweight, hard, durable ceramic art works by firing to high kiln heat. Click to open Glossary. Wheel throwing makes ceramic works from raw clay on a potter's wheel. Click to open Glossary. Silk-screeing is a method for transferring images to the surface of a ceramic work. Click to open Glossary.

   

 

 
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