Adding Texture To Clay

[rkincaid]

What interesting found objects are people using to add texture to clay? 

[bciskepottery]

Are you asking about tools and other items used to put texture on the surface of a ware, or additives to the clay body to give it more texture?

[rkincaid]

Just looking for ideas to stamp texture on the surface.

[sivamc]

I've used buttons, jewelry, the wheels on toy cars and trucks, lace, cut work (as on linens), a sewing tracing wheel and the ends of paint brushes, pens, and other tools.

[Biglou13]

Roll some Manila Rope on it.

 

Ala jomon period

 

A la TatsuzÅ Shimaoka

 

Pine needles

[Isculpt]

I posted the same question a while back.  This link should take you to that conversation, where I got lots of helpful ideas about creating texture. 

 

http://ceramicartsdaily.org/community/topic/3867-materials-to-press-into-clay-for-random-texture/

[Pres]

When I think of stamped or impressed decoration, I express it as pattern. I have used a variety of materials to create patterns that include clay/wood/metal stamps many times hand made or carved by myself. Other materials I use for patterns include lace, floor mats, table mats, buttons, machine parts(gears, pulleys etc.), pieces of typewriters, adding machines, computer printers, and old printing presses. I use commercial materials from cake decorating tools, fimo clay tools, and a variety of artist brushes and tools. Nothing is sacred when it comes to creating regular or irregular patterns in the clay. As far as adding texture, I have rolled puts in hay chaff, uncooked rice, wheat, or oatmeal, even added oatmeal and wheat to my throwing bodies to see what happened there. I have carved a series of paddles used by the HS students that would add great varied patterns to the coil pottery and to some of the slab work.

 

Lately I have been exploring the creation of wooden frames with modelling paste texture/pattern inside carving through this with a dremel tool and then rolling the slabs into the frame for complete side walls of slab pots to be used in combination with thrown feet, necks and lids. It is a slow process, and one that takes a lot of work to make just one piece, so I am trying to do multiples or find ways of making the forms more adjustable.