Pottery paper template collections

Pottery paper templates, grouped by what they make

Lamps, clocks, vases, birdhouses, origami animals, kitchen pieces, kiln bead racks and the long showpiece builds. Each collection has its own page and its own bundle, 30 to 40 percent off what the templates cost one at a time.

  • 8 collections
  • 46 templates
  • Sets 30 to 40 percent off
  • Free for members
Eight slab-built pottery pieces on a display stand, one from each Clay Hole paper template collection
The collections

Eight collections, one for each kind of piece

A teapot, mug with pour-over dripper, pitcher, butter dish, honey pot and spoon rest on a counter, from Clay Hole templates 19 templates Kitchen and Home Mugs, tumblers, a butter dish sized to a real stick of butter, a pour-over dripper for size 02 filters, a four-cup teapot and more.$82.50 as a set $137.50 Five glowing slab-built pottery lamps and lanterns on a sideboard at night, made from Clay Hole paper templates 5 templates Lamps and Lanterns From a tealight house to a lighthouse that glows from its lantern room.$48 as a set $80 A hexagon bud vase, a propagation station and a blue wall pocket on a sunny windowsill, from Clay Hole paper templates 3 templates Vases A six-sided bud vase with mitered corners, a half-cone wall pocket that hangs on a nail, and a little bench for three test tubes of cuttings.$15.05 as a set $21.50 A wren house, a hanging teardrop and a spire tower ceramic birdhouse in a garden, made from Clay Hole paper templates 3 templates Birdhouses A gabled wren house, an eight-sided spire tower and a teardrop that hangs on two chains.$36.40 as a set $52 A ceramic wall clock with raised numbers above a slab mantel clock on a shelf, made from Clay Hole paper templates 2 templates Clocks An arch-topped mantel clock and a 14 inch wall clock with raised clay numbers.$22.40 as a set $32 A faceted origami pottery elephant, fox and dragon on a library table, made from Clay Hole paper templates 3 templates Origami Each animal is cut from flat slab facets, beveled, and joined edge to edge until it reads like folded paper.$43.40 as a set $62 A ceramic chess set, dice tower, marble run, tulip pagoda, fountain, wind chime and whale shark from Clay Hole templates 7 templates Showpieces A chess set with thirty-two folded pieces, a tabletop fountain, a marble run, a castle that rolls your dice, a five-note wind chime and more.$120 as a set $200 Handmade kiln bead racks and bead trees loaded with glazed beads on a kiln shelf, made from Clay Hole paper templates 4 templates Bead Racks and Trees Racks and trees you build yourself to fire glazed beads, pendants and earrings without them sticking to the shelf.$19.20 as a set $32
How the collections work

Same templates, sorted by what you want to make

The paper templates page sorts every template by level, Beginner to Insane. The collections sort the same templates by kind, so someone who wants a lamp sees every lamp at once, from a one-evening tealight house to a lighthouse that glows from its lantern room.

A collection's bundle is every template in it for 30 to 40 percent less than buying them one at a time, and it keeps growing: each new template in that collection, and every update to one already in it, joins the buyer's downloads at no charge.

Every template at once

All 46 templates come as one order in the full bundle, $308.50 instead of $617. Members logged in to a Clay Hole account download every template free, every collection included.

To draw your own, the University lesson Turning a Paper Pattern into a Three-Dimensional Pot walks through the arithmetic every template is built on.

Questions

The ones that come up

What is a pottery paper template

A printable pattern for slab building. Every piece of the pot is drawn flat at exact size, worked out from the finished piece backward through the slab thickness and the shrinkage. Print it at 100 percent, lay it on a slab, cut around it and assemble.

Can a template be in more than one collection

Yes, when it belongs in more than one. Each template page says which collection it is part of and links straight to it.

What happens when a new template comes out

It joins its collection the day it goes live, and anyone who bought that collection's bundle gets the new file free.

Do I need a membership to buy one

No. Every bundle and every single template is for sale to anyone. Members logged in to a Clay Hole account download all of them free.

Which clay do the templates use

Any of the studio's stoneware. Sizes assume 12 percent shrinkage, and each pack carries a size table for clays that shrink 10 or 14 percent. Glaze firings at the studio go to cone 5½.

Can I sell what I make

Yes. The pots are yours. The template files are for your own use and are not to be shared, which is the whole of the terms.

Members

Every template, free, every time

46 templates now and more as they are drawn, all free for members logged in to a Clay Hole account. Print one tonight and bring it to your next session.

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