Creative polymer clay : over 30 techniques and projects for contemporary wearable art

Book 2021

"In this comprehensive guide to modern polymer clay, artist and designer Heidi Helyard reveals simple techniques that can be used to create one-off, contemporary jewellery pieces with minimal tools and equipment. Polymer clay presents so many opportunities to explore colour, patterns and texture. In this book you'll learn exciting and groundbreaking techniques including slab and cane making, marbling and colour mixing, inlay and printing, surface...

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ISBN:

9781446308417

Description:

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

The basics: Clay basics ; Jewellery basics ; Design basics
Techniques and projects: Using cutters: Colour block earrings
Slab making: Monochrome jewellery set ; Pattern clash mini collection ; Stitched trinket dish ; Torn clay trinket dishes
Cane making: Star cane cluster collection ; 3D cane slab earrings ; Translucent opals jewellery set
Surface embellishments: Textured metals multi-component earrings ; Stamped chalk pastel earrings ; Stitched rainbow wall hanging ; Metallic outlines pendant
Mica shift: 3D droplet pendant ; Makume gane: Twisted tube bead pendant ; Clay paint: Mermaid scales jewellery set ; Clay inlay: Black inlay earrings and pendant ; Silkscreen printing: Multi-print pendant ; Silkscreen printing: Multi-print pendant ; Utilising scrap clay: Drilling shavings earrings ; Marble and granite arch earrings ; Cane scraps two ways

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3091582

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