Decorating & Pattern Making

Texture Tools and More

Pottery making is a rewarding process, but at times the creative bug needs to be addressed. If you're tired of producing the same old ceramics, items like texture rollers and other tools that can be used to add interesting designs can make your work stand out. With options from leading brands like Xiem Tools and MKM, your clay will never look boring again.

Learn more about our pottery decorating tools below:

Letter and Number Stamps

Often used to personalise or label pieces, letter and number stamps can be used to add dates, names or even batch numbers to pottery. Great for professional studios, they can also be used by hobbyists to give work that professional feel, ensuring clean, uniform impressions that are hand to replicate by hand. 

Mayco Decorating Accessories

The Mayco decorating accessories selection includes items like applicator bottles that are ideal for applying glazes and slip, as well as brushes, silkscreens and more to offer unique surface decoration or thematic designs to their work. The silkscreens in these accessories offer cultural designs and more basic options too.

MKM Decorating Tools

Our range includes decorating tools from MKM, in both finger roller and hand roller forms. Finger rollers are designed to roll across soft clay or other media to create beautifully carved, unique patterns across straight lines, curvy lines, and borders. Hand rollers are larger, yet still lightweight tools that make a stamp across a slab of clay or the wall of a thrown pot to create a beautiful pattern.

Pottery Painting Accessories

Within our painting accessories, you'll find aprons to keep your clothes from getting covered in paint and other ceramic-related fluids, as well as a wipe out tool, used to erase your mistakes on non-porous surfaces.

Pattern Rollers

Texture or pattern rollers are handheld tools that are perfect for adding decorative textures to clay. Ideal for both hand-built and thrown pottery, these tools allow the imprinting of consistent patterns with ease, much like the finger and hand rollers. Featuring brass heads, these ceramic tools are durable and can apply designs over and over again.

Relyef Tools

Relyef tools include stamps and rollers for clay decorating, and are made by potters for potters. Created in Czechia, each stamp is designed to the smallest detail for unmatched accuracy, comfortable use, and easy cutting when leaving an impression in the clay.

Silkscreens

Silkscreens offer a way to add intricate detail to your work through a range of themes, like nautical or cultural designs, or patterns like chevrons or stripes. Silkscreen mediums are combined with underglaze or liners to create a paste which is then pushed through onto bisque or unfired glaze surfaces. 

Sliptrailers and Bottles

Ideal for decorating and applying slips, glazes, and other liquids, these tools enable consistent, intricate designs to be produced. Sliptrailers and bottles are used to add fine lines, delicate patterns, and more.

Why Choose Potclays?

From trimming and modelling tools to tools for decorating and adding texture, we're proud to provide a wide range of accessories for use on every potter's journey. We're able to provide smaller tools like ribs, sponges, or cutters and bigger pieces of equipment like kilns. Whatever your needs, we're proud to be a one-stop shop for potters at Potclays.

Looking to achieve a specific pattern or design on your ceramics? Our expert team is on hand to offer advice and support - simply get in touch, we're happy to help.