potters

Wheel-throwing clay shapers

Potters is the plural of potter—a person who makes ceramic objects by shaping clay, typically on a rotating wheel.

The term appears in phrases like a guild of potters or potters at the craft fair.

As a verb form, potters means to occupy oneself in a leisurely, aimless way: She potters around the garden on weekends.

This sense is more common in British English; Americans tend to say putter.

materials

clay

Moldable earth for ceramics

terracotta · slip · glaze · grog · kaolin · plasticity · leather-hard · greenware · bisque · underglaze

craft

ceramics

Hardened clay objects

handbuilding · coiling · pinching · slab · wedging · centering · trimming · glazing · firing · kiln

traditions

Wedgwood

British luxury ceramics brand

celadon · raku · slipware · creamware · redware

firing

kiln

Oven for hardening clay

  • firingTerminating employment
  • bisqueCreamy seafood soup
  • rakuLow-fired Japanese ceramic tradition

oxidation · reduction · cone · temperature · pyrometer · sintering · vitrify · maturing · soak · wood-fired

tools

wheel

Rotating circular frame

  • ribCurved chest bone
  • needlePointed implement for sewing
  • spongeAbsorbent cleaning material

wire · calipers · bats · chuck · stilts · extruder · brushes · stamps · paddles · anvil

Categories
Opposites
material worked

pottersmetalworkers

Artisans shaping heated alloys

blacksmiths · glassblowers · sculptors · woodworkers · weavers

creation vs. destruction

pottersdestroyers

Fast armed naval vessels

breakers · demolishers · iconoclasts

production method

pottersfactory workers

Employees in manufacturing facilities

machine operators · assembly line workers

Phrases
Family

pottery, potted, potter, pottering, pottered, potterer, potterers

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G