Ceramics

Ceramics

Of or pertaining to the art or technique of making objects of ceramic such as porcelain, earthenware or tile.

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interface

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Contact face between clay and glaze. On low-fired wares, primarily just a physical interlocking of glaze into pores in clay. In high-fired wares, an intimate interaction of clay and glaze, ...

vitrification

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The change from a porous to vitreous state of a ceramic

Most abundant coloring material on earth, responsible for brown and sometimes black color in natural rock and fired clays. In oxidation firings, the red ferric oxide remains very refractory, but in ...

volatility

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The process of evaporation of materials on firing

jasper ware

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Ware developed by Wedgewood in which colored stoneware is decorated with contrasting raised relief slip or clay imagery.

volcanic ash, pumice

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Fine volcanic particulate expelled from surface vents in a volcanic eruption. Similar to feldspar in composition, but usually contains iron.

jiggering

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A partially mechanized vessel-forming process on the potter’s wheel, where a pivoting arm (a jigger or jolley) with a mounted profile rib is brought down against a centered clay ball within or upon a ...