Complete the account of construction.
Nearly all fired ceramic work must be ______ so that steam can escape. Building with rolled ropes of clay is ______, and building with rolled sheets is ______. Both surfaces of a join must be scored and coated with ______.
Word bank: hollow · coiling · slabbing · slip · solid · throwing
Hints
- The first blank is the requirement every technique is working around.
- The last blank is clay thinned with water.
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Nearly all fired ceramic work must be hollow so that steam can escape. Building with rolled ropes of clay is coiling, and building with rolled sheets is slabbing. Both surfaces of a join must be scored and coated with slip.
The first blank is the constraint that generates the whole lesson. Every technique here exists to build a hollow form that stands up while soft, which is a harder problem than making a shape and is why ceramics has four distinct methods rather than one.
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