Ceramics

Objects made of clay fired sufficiently high in temperature for a chemical change
to take place in the clay body, usually over 1550 degrees F.

CERAMIC CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES:

Coiled Pottery
Skip cast
Pinch Pots Slab Built Wheel thrown

TYPES OF CLAY


Earthenware Stoneware Porcelain

Terra cotta
A low-fire clay. A high-fire clay. Inventes in China and Korea around 960 AD.
Porous and not waterproof.
A brownish-orange earthenware
Stoneware is waterproof Porcelain is a combination of kaolin, silica and feldspar.
To be functional, It must be glazed. clay body commonly used It can be worked as clay, but when fired properly
for ceramic sculpture. even without glaze;
he resulting ware is sturdier than earthenware. reaches a state similar to glass.

Terra cotta

Firing - Clay is hardened by heating it to a high temperature, fusing the clay particles.
Primitive pottery is usually fired on the ground or in pits with whatever flammable material is available.
Kilns, the furnace in which ceramics are fired, allow a more efficient use of materials and more control over the atmosphere during a firing.

Clay Stages