Cups Vocabulary Guiding Question What vocabulary tools and
Cups Vocabulary
Guiding Question • What vocabulary, tools, and techniques do I need to know to be successful at making cups on the pottery wheel?
Yunomi • A traditional Japanese tea cup. • Narrow, wide, narrow • Trimmed foot.
Trim a Foot • • Turn your cup upside down. Re-center it. Blocks of clay to hold it. Cut a ring into the bottom of the piece. Use a trim tool. (wood handle with a metal loop)
Mug • Cylinder • Slightly thicker bottom and walls. • Handle is added to the cylinder.
Handle • • Pull it from a lump of clay. Score and slip both ends. Hand is wet. Glide your hand past the clay to make the handle longer. • DO NOT SQUEEZE!
Glass • A thin cylinder with no handle or foot.
Alter • To change the appearance of a cylinder using various techniques.
Decorate • Adding elements that enhance the appearance of the object.
Facet • Altering technique. • Using the wire tool to cut a flat edge into a thicker walled cylinder.
Paddle • Altering technique. • Using a wood tool to hit the clay cylinder into a flat edge. • Using a wood tool to add a line into a clay cylinder.
Blistering • Pushing your finger from the inside of the cup to make the surface bulge out. • Add a line to define the bulge. • Add texture to vary the surface.
Rasp • A tool that shaves the clay off the cup. Very sharp! Be careful!
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