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About Roopam Tools

Tools made by potters, for potters.

Roopam Tools designs and manufactures precision tools for potters and ceramic studios. Stamps, molds, cutters, ribs and drape forms, made in house and shipped to makers in more than 25 countries.

25+
Countries shipped to
In house
Design and manufacturing
Kerala
India, where we build

Who we are

The company

Roopam Tools is a pottery tool manufacturer based in Kerala, India. We design, produce and ship a growing catalog of tools for handbuilders, studio potters, teaching studios and ceramic educators.

The business exists to close a specific gap: precision tools built for the way potters actually work, priced fairly, and available worldwide rather than limited to a handful of markets. Every product we sell is designed and manufactured by us, not sourced and rebranded.

Roopam Tools is operated by Karmam Martech (OPC) Private Limited, a company incorporated in India. We sell direct to customers through this site and fulfil every order from our own workshop.

Bespoke work

Custom tools

Some of the work we are proudest of never appears in the catalog.

Potters and studios come to us with a motif, a piece of artwork, a studio mark, a shape they need for a specific commission, or simply a problem they have not found a tool for. We take it from there: translating the idea into a CAD design, prototyping it, and manufacturing a finished tool made for that potter alone.

Custom work runs through exactly the same process and the same standards as our catalog pieces. A one off stamp made from a customer's own drawing is built with the same care as a tool we produce in the hundreds. A potter's marks should be theirs, and custom tools are how we make that possible.

Start a custom project

Customers

Who we make them for

Handbuilders working at a kitchen table. Hobby potters building a home studio. Teaching studios running classes week after week. Production ceramicists filling wholesale orders. Art schools and community workshops.

Our tools ship from India to customers in more than 25 countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and across Europe.

Leadership

The people behind Roopam

Willy Justin

Willy Justin

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Willy leads product and technology at Roopam, covering CAD design and tooling, manufacturing, internal systems and international logistics. He sets the technical standard every tool in the catalog is measured against.

Sheryl Thomas

Sheryl Thomas

Co-founder, Marketing and Communications

Sheryl heads Marketing, People and Communications. She leads the brand's content and community work, looks after the team, and is the primary point of contact for customers, from a first question about which stamp suits a clay body through to after sales support.

Standards

What we stand for

Made properly

Every tool is tested in clay before it is sold. If it does not work on our own bench, it does not ship.

Made accessible

Good tools should not be a luxury reserved for a few markets. We manufacture efficiently and ship worldwide so that potters anywhere can get them.

Made with you

Our catalog has grown almost entirely out of customer conversations. Tell us what you need and there is a fair chance we will make it.

Legal

Company information

Registered office

Karmam Martech (OPC) Private Limited
Vallikat Building, Building No. 250, Ward 10
Edavetty Panchayat, Thekkumbagom PO
Thodupuzha, Idukki
Kerala 685585, India
Legal entity
Karmam Martech (OPC) Private Limited
Trading name
Roopam Tools
Website
tools.roopam.ooo

Contact

Get in touch

Questions about a tool, a custom project or a wholesale order? Write to us at team@roopam.ooo. We answer every message ourselves.