Ceramics Definition Of Bone Dry

For those of you not familiar with ceramics or pottery bone dry is a term used to describe the dry clay body prior to its first firing.

Ceramics definition of bone dry.

Bone dry the condition of clay when all the water has evaporated. Many people have asked me why i picked bone dry ceramics for the name. The clay is completely dry. Bone dry definition very dry.

Of clay thoroughly dried. This finishing is done by hand using a stone or a metal piece which is usually embedded in a wad of wet clay that perfectly fits the burnisher s hand. Another word for bone dry. Casting a means of making multiples of the same form by pouring slip or pressing plastic clay into plaster or bisque molds.

When held bone dry greenware feels to be at room temperature not cool to the touch. Bone dry completely air dried. Bone dry adjective is a term used to describe and identify greenware pottery that has dried as much as possible before it has gone through its first firing the bisque firing. When they were well in the centre of the bone dry fern dan nudged una who stopped and put on a boot as quickly as she could.