Polymer Pizzazz

Polymer Pizzazz is the essential resource for people who want to learn to use polymer clay. This book showcases the many ways of using the material to create beads, pendants brooches, and earrings, and it includes a Basics section! Readers will learn to make painted disk beads, marbled beads, filigree beads, and more. Also includes techniques such as canes, chains and faux jewelry including, faux cinnabar, faux porcelain, faux lacquer, and faux stone pieces.

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Author: From Bead&Button magazine
Softcover; 8 1/4 x 10 3/4; 96 pages; 370 color photos; ISBN: 9780871162366

From the editors of Bead&Button magazine.

Introduction 4
Basics 5

BEADS
Modern marbling 12
Painterly polymer 15
Divided shield beads 17
Filigree beads 20
Grand illusions 23
Warring States beads 27
Grapevine beads 30
Filigree finery 34
Go fish 36

CANES AND CHAINS
Complex canework 40
Great canes 44
Loop-in-loop 47
Chains of clay 51

PENDANTS
Primitive pendant 54
Leaf pendants 57
Mystic collage 60
Uncommon combination 63
Imagine the possibilities 66
Polymer-clay lockets 69
Elegant inro pendants 72
Stylish polymer-clay tassels 75
Heart to heart 77

FAUX TECHNIQUES
Faux cinnabar 80
Faux lacquer brooches 83
Faux enamel 86
Faux porcelain beads 89
Faux stone 92

Contributors 95
Resources and Merchants 96