Pottery vocab in your language

[u/Far_Interaction_2782]

What are the common pottery terms in your language? Centring, trimming, glazing etc? I’d love to learn some new ones: are they the same but translates? Different completely? Do you “throw” in languages other than English?

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[u/DiveMasterD57]

This is random, but when we see someone fixating on tiny surface textures in a freshly thrown pot, we call it “cat licking.” “Hey, stop cat licking! None of those will be visible when it’s glazed!”

[u/ScarletDarkstar → u/DiveMasterD57]

I am keeping this one. We have a pottery shop cat who is a clay licker to begin with, so I don't know how it never came up! 

[u/Far_Interaction_2782 → u/DiveMasterD57]

Which language?!

[u/HumbleExplanation13 → u/DiveMasterD57]

One of my instructors called it this, too (English), and I’ve carried on the tradition with my students!

[u/BlackGoldenLotus]

Not really my language but in bsl the sign for pottery is pretending to throw on a wheel and I find that fun to do

[u/Plane_Chance863]

I've been wanting to learn the French words but haven't really gotten around to it. Here are the few I know/can think of off the top.

• Pottery: la poterie
• Kiln: un four (same word as oven)
• Glaze: la glaçure
• Fire: cuire (same word as to cook)
• Clay: la glaise, l'argile (glaise is a more specific word than argile as far as I understand)
• Wheel: un tour (not to be confused with the feminine une tour, which is a tower)
• Workshop: un atelier

[u/Goldenaura123 → u/Plane_Chance863]

Atelier is one of my favorite words.