Jodie's Dice Farm create hand-crafted gaming accessories for the weirdos and the nerds.
Our mission is to provide magical alternatives to plastic products so that you can feel good about your gear, and game with sustainability and style.
Our History
From beginning by learning to make resin dice as we we're all locked away in 2020 and documenting my dice journey online, to running this business full time today - it's been a wild ride.
After a year working with resin, I decided I wanted to find something more sustainable - and through experimentation and months of re-learning and practice, I relaunched with what is now my signature material: Faux stone. Based in Bournemouth, a coastal town in the south of England, I am a single artist working from a home studio making each and every die by hand. Dicemaking and creating unique, truly handcrafted pieces of art is the thing that truly brings me joy, and everyday I am honoured that people roll (and hang, and wear, and use) my work.
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As I've grown as an artist over the years, so has my range - what started as just a dice shop has become a one-stop shop for eco-friendly game wares with my gothic stamp on them and I couldn't be prouder - from going back to my roots as a traditional artist with my lino-print art range, to being able to offer more eco-friendly alternatives like our reusable Battle-Map tea-towels or faux-stone dice trays.
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The Dice Process
From a sketch in a book to rolling on your table, each set is made by hand by the Dice Farmer myself - truly by hand, from start to finish.
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I begin by using a fine-concrete stone-like compound. This is mixed and coloured, and skilfully poured into moulds to create unique marbled patterns that are different each time. ​After the dice have set, they are removed from the moulds and each die is cleaned up with an x-acto knife to keep the sharp points that we love handmade dice for. The faces are then sanded as needed to be smooth and even for balanced rolling.
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The final steps of each set is hand-mixing paint colours and inking the numbers, carefully painting the faces and cleaning up leftover paint. And last but not least the dice each get a layer of splash-proof sealant that will finish them - then they're ready to roll!
Environmentally Conscious
In streamlining my process, I also took this time to ensure I was actively being as environmentally conscious as possible. The switch to using Jesmonite was done for the reason of it being an eco-friendly material, leaving less of an imprint on our planet. But I wanted to make sure I was creating sustainable work, both in product and process.
​Jesmonite will eventually break down in water (think submerged for weeks) - so they wont be floating bits of plastic in the ocean. It also doesn't give off the extremely toxic odours like epoxy does, meaning it's both safer and not contributing to air pollution. I made sure that all of my working materials are made of reusable silicone, so there are no single-use cups or sticks around here, and using only biodegradable products for the necessities like cotton buds for cleaning the ink up - plus biodegradable cello for art prints, and recycled/recyclable paper bags at shows.
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I source materials without using any next-day delivery websites or cheap imports; buying from retailers and stockists in the UK to cut down air-miles. I also extended this ethos to our packaging, and going for planet-friendly rather than fancy. Every order is packaged in a reusable storage tin filled with repurposed tissue paper and paper fill that we repurpose from things we order in ourselves.
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I strongly believe in being the change we want to see in the world: and that goes beyond using jesmonite and claiming the title 'eco-friendly' - it means we run the studio as low waste, we source ethically, and we do things well instead of cheaply and quickly.