FREE · MADE BY A POTTER
Free printable templates for hand building — sized to your piece, shrinkage included.
★ Already used by 100+ pottery makers
🏺 Made by a potter, for potters.
Your templates and projects stay on your device — nothing is uploaded, saved, or shared. They’re 100% yours.
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The library
Twelve departures, the infinity of your odds.
You are no longer limited. Each shape is customizable: adjust the dimensions, add a handle, change the number of panels—the pattern regenerates.
THE TIME YOU SAVE
Save 25 minutes on every project.
Average time from idea to the first cut in the clay. By hand, you start over. Digital, you just print.
Manual method · Ruler + mental math
35 min
Store-bought templates · Standard, rigid shapes
15 min
Our tool · Digital, made to measure
30 s ✓
0 %
CALCULATION ERRORS
No hidden approximations in your dimensions.
−90 %
TRACING TIME
Your hands go straight to the clay.
0 €
MATERIAL COST
A few sheets, thousands of shapes.
Espresso cup & saucer, on the house
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RIGOUR, NOT CONSTRAINT
Digital in service of your artist’s eye.
Drawing a template by hand means risking an asymmetry, a bad joint angle, or a lid that won’t close. The tool generates perfect vector lines — you keep the freedom of the design, it takes care of the geometry.
No more “almost” — your pieces fit together on the first try.
Endless archive — reprint your favourite templates in one click.
Hand-drawn
Wobbly, imperfect lines
Digital
Guaranteed 90° cut
ZERO MENTAL MATH
You think in finished sizes. The tool thinks in raw clay.
Working out the circumference of a cylinder or compensating for your stoneware’s 13.5 % shrinkage is no longer your problem. You enter the dimensions of the piece you want after firing — the tool draws the “raw” version for you.
Handles shrinkage
Handles slab thickness
Prints at real size
Firing shrinkage, calculated for you
Every clay shrinks differently — often 10 to 14 %. Measure your shrinkage once, enter it, and every dimension of the template is scaled automatically.
Adjustable 0–20 %, to the decimal · Applies to diameters, heights and flat patterns · Switch clay → instant recalculation
template rectangle ↔ fired piece
FROM SCREEN TO WORKBENCH
Three steps from idea to slab.
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Pick a shape
Start from a model in the library. A parametric starting point, not a fixed mould.
02
Enter your sizes
Finished dimensions, your clay’s shrinkage, slab thickness. The preview updates live.
03
Print & cut
Full-size A4 PDF, assembly marks. Lay it on the slab and follow the lines.
WHY CHANGE YOUR HABITS
Spend less, create more freely.
80 €/an
Save on materials
Stop buying rigid templates at €15 each. A few euros of paper gives you thousands of shapes.
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Mental math
Circumference, your stoneware’s 13.5 % shrinkage, flat patterns… the tool draws the “raw” version for you, every time.
∞
Total freedom
No longer limited by the shop’s stock. Create original shapes, try angles you’d never have drawn with a ruler.
FROM THE STUDIO
What the hands in the clay say.
The first potters to try it — their words, not mine.
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★★★★★
No more working out circumferences on a scrap of paper. I pick, I print, I cut. My first mug was spot-on first try.
CM
Camille M.
Hobby potter · Nantes
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★★★★★
Shrinkage used to be my nightmare. Now I enter my finished sizes and it’s sorted. A huge time-saver on my series.
JR
Julien R.
Ceramics studio · Lyon
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★★★★★
Finally templates in MY size, not the shop’s. A tea caddy with a lid that actually closes — bliss.
SL
Sophie L.
Potter · Bordeaux
★ 4.9 / 5 from early feedback · +40 templates printed in testing · 100 % would do it again
THE STUDIO JOURNAL
Learn slab building.
Guides, techniques and tips for pieces that come out right — and to get the most from the tool. Every article has its own page, built for search.
Guide
How to calculate your clay’s shrinkage rate (stoneware, earthenware, porcelain)
The 100 mm test tile, the exact formula, and average shrinkage rates by clay body — so your pots come out of the kiln the size you actually wanted.
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Guide
Throwing in batches: 5 tips for making identical mugs
Weighing your balls, height and width gauges, profile templates: the five habits that turn six “roughly similar” mugs into a matching set.
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Guide
How to make your own pottery ribs and templates
Cardboard, plywood, plastic or laser-cut: which material for which job, how to cut cleanly, and how to start from a pattern that’s already the right size.
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30 s per template · Shrinkage 0–20 % adjustable · Slab thickness compensated · Full-size A4 PDF export · Handles & profiles included
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