Words for techniques, materials and tools

Pick a term from each record and explain it in two sentences without using the term itself. Then add a small diagram.

Match each term to a step in your own studio. Where there is no match, say what the missing step would be.

Tile has its own words. The potter record says the Ottoman word cini means Chinese work, from Cin, China ². A coloured glaze is fired over a tile body and gives a permanent colour ². At Kubadabad, near Beysehir (1226–1236), the design was painted on a matt white, purple or turquoise glaze with a silver or copper oxide mixture and fired again at low heat ². The mina'i technique, with seven colours painted over a fired glaze and fired again, is found in Anatolian Seljuk art, in the entry's account, only at the Alaeddin kiosk in Konya ².

All of this comes from one entry in the TDV encyclopaedia ². The entry is about architectural tile, not vessels, and does not describe a kiln, quartz frit, cobalt by name, a guild or an apprenticeship ². The museum has no person record for Merendli, Muhammad al-Majnun or Ali ibn Ilyas Ali, the makers the entry names ². So the terms a glossary can take from the record are glaze and technique words, not kiln words.

The entry says lustre was painted with a silver or copper oxide mixture and fired again at low heat, and that mina'i was painted over a fired glaze and fired again ². Take a position and answer the strongest objection to it: is a second firing a technique of its own, or only a step of the first?

• Potter / tilemaker: lustre, mina'i, cut tile mosaic and the Ottoman underglaze colours.
• Pouncing in Persian painting: a term from another craft, the pricked outline dusted with charcoal.
• Calligrapher (khattat): the dot, the mistar and the nib widths of the hands.