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From concrete wall to clay roller.
A National Theatre wall texture recreated as a custom pottery roller for Janice at EpsomPots.
01 / THE BRIEF
Janice from EpsomPots came to us with an unusual request: could we turn the texture of a wall at the National Theatre into a roller she could use in her pottery?
02 / THE CHALLENGE
Translate the ridges, grain and small imperfections of a large concrete surface into a textured tool that could transfer the pattern onto clay.
03 / THE PROCESS
We visited the National Theatre with Janice to study the wall, reconstructed its texture as a detailed 3D model and made a custom 3D-printed clay roller.
04 / THE RESULT
Janice used the roller to create the textured ceramic pieces shown here for her collection, The Traces. The Jolly Oddities designed and printed the roller; the finished ceramics were made by Janice at EpsomPots.
FROM REFERENCE TO REAL LIFE
How it took shape.
01 / The wall that started it
The original textured concrete wall at the National Theatre, used as the reference for the roller.
02 / Our custom clay roller
We reconstructed the wall pattern as a 3D model and printed the tool for Janice.
03 / The texture in use
A ceramic pot made by Janice at EpsomPots, with a textured clay detail created using our roller.
04 / A closer look
A finished ceramic piece by EpsomPots showing the transferred wall texture.
05 / Grain and detail
A round ceramic piece made by EpsomPots, carrying the ridges and grain of the original wall.
06 / The pattern across a surface
A rectangular ceramic piece made by EpsomPots using the custom roller to transfer the wall pattern.
