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Six-armed snowflakes of three sizes for Christmas ornaments and winter pottery. Branched arms and a flurry of small flakes.
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A snowfall of six-armed flakes 9 and 13 mm across, each arm with two pairs of side branches round a small hub, and a flurry of round flakes about 2.5 mm between them. Roll it into air-dry clay or porcelain for Christmas tree ornaments and gift tags, into stoneware for winter mugs and plates, or over cling film into fondant for Christmas cakes.
Made with our free texture roller tool in its Rolling pin style, not modelled by hand: we drew the pattern in code as a seamless picture, uploaded it, and set a sleeve 40 mm across and 100 mm long, the pattern raised 1.5 mm and repeated three times round and twice along. The tool prints the sleeve 1 mm shorter, 99 mm, so a printed sleeve turns freely between the handles. The zip holds the texture sleeve and the tool's current two rolling-pin handles, as two STL files, plus the pattern picture, so you can remake the sleeve at another diameter or depth.
Every sleeve made for the current handles slides onto the same two handles: the core, 194 mm long overall, a handle with a 27 mm tube, and a cap that locks on with a quarter turn. Print the handles once, and after that only sleeves.
The first picture is a 3D render of this sleeve on the clay it has pressed. The two photos are our own test print of the rolling-pin system from the texture roller tool, with a hearts sleeve: put together, and as its three parts.
Print the sleeve and both handles standing on their ends, as exported, no supports. A 5 mm brim keeps the tall core steady.
Slide the sleeve over the core's tube, push the cap on with its slots over the two lugs and turn it a quarter turn to lock.
Roll the clay to an even thickness first: 5 to 8 mm for pottery slabs, 2 to 3 mm for jewellery and ornaments.
Roll across once, in one direction, with steady, even pressure, and lift off at the end. Going back and forth doubles the pattern.
Turn the cap back to swap to another sleeve from the set, and wash the sleeve in warm soapy water after use.
Print details
| Works with | Clay |
|---|---|
| Printed parts | 3 |
| Size (W x D x H) | 43 x 42 x 99 mm |
| Print bed needed | 80 x 43 mm, 195 mm tall |
| Filament | ~111 g |
| Layer height | 0.2 mm |
| Infill | 20% |
| Supports | Not needed |
| Download | ZIP: texture sleeve + 2 rolling-pin handles (2 STL) + pattern picture (PNG) + print sheet + README |
| Added | 2026-10-05 |
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Roll air-dry clay or porcelain about 4 mm thick, texture it, cut circles or stars with a cookie cutter and poke a hanging hole with a straw. Let air-dry clay dry flat, turning it once, then rub white or silver paint into the flakes.
No. There are two sizes of six-armed flakes, about 9 and 13 mm across, set at different turns, plus small round flakes between them, so the pattern reads as falling snow rather than a printed grid.
Yes. Every sleeve made for the current handles is 99 mm long with a 27.6 mm bore, and every zip carries the same core and cap, so you print the handles once and swap sleeves with a quarter turn of the cap. These are the handles the texture roller tool makes today, so a sleeve you design yourself in the tool fits them too. The older sleeves in the catalog with a 30.6 mm bore need their own, bigger handles.
About 4 h 30 min for everything on a current printer at 0.2 mm layers: about 1 h 35 min for the sleeve and 2 h 55 min for both handles. Once you have the handles, each new sleeve is only the first part. The times are estimated from the parts' volume, not sliced.
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