Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the states of a clay body in the order it passes through them.
- Leather-hard, firm but still joinable
- Glaze-fired and vitrified
- Bisque-fired and porous
- Plastic and fully workable
- Bone-dry greenware
Hints
- The sequence runs by decreasing water content, then by firing.
- Joining happens before the body is bone-dry.
Show the answer
- Plastic and fully workable
- Leather-hard, firm but still joinable
- Bone-dry greenware
- Bisque-fired and porous
- Glaze-fired and vitrified
Why
The leather-hard stage is where nearly all construction and every join happens, because the body is firm enough to hold its shape and damp enough that two pieces will shrink together. Miss that window and the join fails on drying.
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