Resources for slab-built ceramics.

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.

Every clay shrinks differently — often 10 to 14 %. Measure your shrinkage once, enter it, and every template dimension is scaled automatically.

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.

A 5 mm slab doesn’t bend like a sheet of paper. On cylinders, cones and angles, the tool adjusts radii and the developed perimeter to the thickness so the edges land right.

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.