moist+leather+hard,+greenware,+bone+dry

Greenware generally refers to unfired pottery in ceramics, greenware which is thouroughly room dried and therefore refered to as "bone dry". Moist lay, leather hard, bone dry refers to the 3 stages of greenware. Greenware is: **clay pieces before firing:** clay objects that have dried but have not yet been fired

Sources: achers.henrico.k12.va.us/virtualart/presentations/misc/clay_terminology.ppt · PPT file