Originally designed for placing and pressing slip-soaked lace onto vessels and forms. This lace tool is a dynamic modeling tool ideal for smoothing, scooping, carving, poking, etching and making various impressions in your clay. This double-ended tool has a stainless steel curved blade on one end and a needle on the other ideal for intricate, varied modeling techniques. Widely used for the application of slip-soaked lace to greenware boxes, figurines and more, it can also be useful for many other kinds of intricate modeling work. The curved blade is ideal for pressing, smoothing and for scooping and carving out material. The needle can be used to trim, poke and etch fine designs in clay, or to make holes, marks and impressions.