1. Cups
Vocabulary

2. Guiding Question
What vocabulary, tools, and techniques do I need to know to be successful at making cups on the pottery wheel?

3. Yunomi A traditional Japanese tea cup. Narrow, wide, narrow
Trimmed foot.

4. 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)

5. Mug Cylinder Slightly thicker bottom and walls.
Handle is added to the cylinder.

6. 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!

7. Glass
A thin cylinder with no handle or foot.

8. Alter
To change the appearance of a cylinder using various techniques.

9. Decorate
Adding elements that enhance the appearance of the object.

10. Facet Altering technique.
Using the wire tool to cut a flat edge into a thicker walled cylinder.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. Rasp
A tool that shaves the clay off the cup. Very sharp! Be careful!