Resources for slab-built ceramics.

Mug, candle holder, lidded box, cookie plate: 7 Christmas pottery gift ideas, no wheel needed, each with a free printable template.

Air-dry clay hardens without a kiln. It suits decorative pieces, not anything that holds water or food. Pottery templates work with it: measure its shrinkage once, enter it in the tool, and print at actual size.

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.

Weighing your balls, height and width gauges, profile templates: the five habits that turn six “roughly similar” mugs into a matching set.

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.

No pottery wheel? No problem. Eight easy slab-building ideas with free printable templates — perfect for starting at home.

A full-size printable ceramic cup template: wall, base and handle, with firing shrinkage already accounted for. Free to download and cut out.

Make a slab-built ceramic bowl step by step: prepare the slab, cut the template, build the flared wall and base. No wheel needed, with a free printable pattern.

Bowls, boxes, larger pieces: how to choose a slab thickness that holds up — and why it changes the calculation of your ceramic templates.

Kurinuki is the art of carving a piece from a solid block of clay. A step-by-step introduction to shaping your first cup, keeping the walls even and avoiding cracks.

Learn how to make a ceramic mug with the slab technique, step by step: prepare the slab, cut the template, build the body and attach the handle. With a free printable pattern.

Your template has to print at the exact size or everything downstream is wrong. The 100 % setting browser by browser, a five-second check, and how to tile a large template.