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Grog, temper for clay. Grog, also known as firesand and chamotte, is a raw material usually made from crushed and ground potsherds, reintroduced into crude clay to temper it before making ceramic ware. It has a high percentage of silica and alumina. It is normally available as a powder or chippings, and is an important ingredient in Coade stone.
pottery where decoration in slip is a main feature. Includes slip-painting, slip-trailing, and many other techniques Slop Another name for slurry. Soaking A period during a firing cycle when a set temperature is maintained. The period of time at the maintained temperature is called the soak, hold or dwell. Soda ash
This pottery was long thought to have been imported from these other areas as trade items, and modern chemical analysis has shown that much of it is. The same analysis has also proved that some of the pottery was made locally in the Moundville polity. The polychrome pottery has representational motifs painted with red, white, and black pigments.
Most Groggs are 9 inches tall or less and are made of a type of clay called grog. Groggs are usually made of popular Welsh rugby players, [1] Welsh celebrities [2] and the occasional non-Welsh celebrity. [3] [4] Whenever possible the person who is "grogged" is presented with the first Grogg produced. [5]
Artists would prepare the clay, then roll it into coils or ropes, stacking them on top of one another to form the desired shape. Once the coils were placed, the artist would smooth the surface to create a solid, unified form. Often, another vessel would be used as a mold to shape the pottery into a specific shape.
Cardium pottery or Cardial ware is a Neolithic decorative style that gets its name from the imprinting of the clay with the heart-shaped shell of the Corculum cardissa, a member of the cockle family Cardiidae. These forms of pottery are in turn used to define the Neolithic culture which produced and spread them, commonly called the "Cardial ...
Stoneware is a vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic made primarily from stoneware clay or non-refractory fire clay. [10] Stoneware is fired at high temperatures. [11] Vitrified or not, it is nonporous; [12] it may or may not be glazed.
Shapes of pottery. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. A. Ancient Greek pot shapes (1 C, 53 P) C. Crockery (8 P) S ...