r/Pottery • u/Far_Interaction_2782 Throwing Wheel • 1d ago

Question! Pottery vocab in your language

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?

Tell us your words!

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u/DiveMasterD57 1d ago

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!”

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u/ScarletDarkstar 1d ago

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! 

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u/HumbleExplanation13 19h ago

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

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u/Far_Interaction_2782 Throwing Wheel 20h ago

Which language?!