veiner

Clay sculpting implement

A veiner is a tool used in decorating and craftwork, featuring a groove or channel that creates vein-like lines or textures.

Cake decorators use veiners to press realistic patterns into fondant or gum paste leaves and petals.

Woodcarvers and leatherworkers employ similar tools to carve fine linear details.

The term also appears in clay work and sculpture for adding naturalistic texture to botanical subjects.

woodcarving

gouge

Concave carving blade

woodworking · linenfold · foliate · acanthus · detail work · hand tool · V-tool · sweep · channel · fluting

sugarcraft

fondant

Smooth, moldable cake covering

mold · impression · silicone · rose petal · orchid · peony · realism · ruffling · frilling · thinning

leatherwork

tooling

Industrial machinery preparation

saddlery · leathercraft · embossing · impression · mallet · floral pattern · leaf pattern · backgrounder · modeling · seeder

pottery

clay

Moldable earth for ceramics

botanical · stoneware · earthenware · greenware · slip · natural forms

Opposites
surface texture effect

veinersmoother

More even, less coarse

burnisher · slicker · polisher · flattener · planisher

Phrases
Family

vein, veins, veined, veining, veinless, veinlet

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G