Clay can be molded when wet, then after the taking the correct steps it will turn to pottery. Make sure you don't working with clay too much because it begins to dry out and reduces the elasticity. If your clay dries up then you won't be able to add texture and make patterns in the clay. You can still carve and add shapes in the clay when it is leather hard but when leather hard your clay is no longer elastic so you cannot make texture. When the clay dries it becomes firm and brittle, that is called bone dry. Greenware is bone dry pottery that is about to be put into the kiln, after you put the pottery in the kiln it because bisque and after that stage water can not be added to it to make the the clay elastic again. The kiln gets into really high temperatures up to 2552 degrees Fahrenheit. After the pottery is bisqued you glaze the piece. Glaze is a glass coating that is painted on to the pottery. After you glaze you have to fire the pottery to keep the glaze on and make it stay.
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