Linda Stauffer on sun 29 mar 98
This may be an old question asked many times but ....My students are
always asking why is making a pot on the wheel called "throwing"?
OWL POTTER on mon 30 mar 98
Somewhere I read the following: The ancient Saxon word for "spinning" was
"thrawen" and as it came forward in usage as pertains to the making of pots
on a spinning wheel, it got bastardized as "throwing."
I cannot even remember where I read that, but, it made about as much sense to
me as anything else I'd ever heard. Maybe someone else can name the source of
this.
Carolynn Palmer, Somerset Center, Michigan
Dave Eitel on tue 31 mar 98
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Somewhere I read the following: The ancient Saxon word for "spinning" was
>"thrawen" and as it came forward in usage as pertains to the making of pots
>on a spinning wheel, it got bastardized as "throwing."
>
> I cannot even remember where I read that, but, it made about as much sense to
>me as anything else I'd ever heard. Maybe someone else can name the source of
>this.
>
>Carolynn Palmer, Somerset Center, Michigan
A quick check in Websters Unabridged shows the derivation of the verb to
throw coming from an Old English word meaning "to cause to turn or twist,"
which seems to affirm what Carolynn said.
Dave
Dave Eitel
Cedar Creek Pottery
Cedarburg, WI USA
http://www.cedarcreekpottery.com
Trillium23 on tue 31 mar 98
Seems like I vaguely remember reading somewhere (probably in a book about folk
pottery), that the phrase "throwing a pot" comes from the act of actually
throwing the ball of clay onto the wheel head. Although most of the folk
potters around here call it "turning a pot" rather than "throwing".
Marcia, Clermont, Georgia
(in the Beautiful NE Georgia Mountains!)
Bob Hanlin on thu 9 apr 98
What I heard was similar. I heard (or read somewhere) that it came from
the old-english word thrawen and that had more to with rotation than moving
an object from one place from another through the air.
At 09:12 AM 3/30/98 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Somewhere I read the following: The ancient Saxon word for "spinning" was
>"thrawen" and as it came forward in usage as pertains to the making of pots
>on a spinning wheel, it got bastardized as "throwing."
>
> I cannot even remember where I read that, but, it made about as much
sense to
>me as anything else I'd ever heard. Maybe someone else can name the
source of
>this.
>
>Carolynn Palmer, Somerset Center, Michigan
>
>
Bob Hanlin
bhanlin@ionet.net
Oklahoma City, OK
LESAINT1 on fri 10 apr 98
There is an article on the origin of the term "throwing" on the Studio Potter
website. www.studiopotter.org. You just look under the articles section. I
thought it was very good if you're interested in the development of language.
Leslie
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