This isn’t my idea. I wish I knew who to give the proper credit to. One of my fellow guild members (Janice V) was using her nifty tool and she told us how to make it,the next month another member (Barb B) brought in a little bag for each of us filled with everything we needed to make our own so I went home and did just that.
It’s quite simple to make. I guess you could make it any shape you wanted to but this shape is easy to hang on to.
Grab some scrap clay, roll it into your preferred shape and then simply roll it in a pile of different sized/shaped salts,sugars,sprinkles or even little beads. Bake and voila! An instant texture tool.
Well how dang clever is that!!! Thank you for sharing, and trying to credit where the first idea came from. Perhaps eventually the name will trickle back here. Can’t wait to try it.
I am always texture hungry! Thanks for this great idea, can’t wait to make my own.
How clever! I’m going to have fun trying this!
What a clever idea. Thanks so much for sharing it! Can’t wait to make one.
What a great idea!
Oh Heck Yeah!….thanks for sharing your clever idea… 🙂
Thank you most of all for sharing.
Someone once told me to do the same thing, except to use different type of rice and beans or grains/spices. We elected however to leave the embedded grains in our slabs and fired it so that they burnt away in the kiln and left pock marks that were wonderful texture wise. That was with ceramic clay, I now work with polymer clay as well and your sharing sparked some great ideas! Cheers!
Thanks so much for sharing and to the original sharing person too 🙂
What a clever idea.
fun idea!
I think many clayers have been doing this. I saw it somewhere in a magazine years ago where someone made their own texture tools but they were individual pieces, similar to making a mold. Since then I have made collage type texture tools out of practically everything that I could get my hands onto. Another fun thing is after you make it, push it into another gob of scrap clay for a reverse impression. Kinda like the way they do with rubber stamps.
That is amazing, and the template looks like a piece of rock you would find on the beach, only more intricately patterned, of course! Thanks for sharing this!