In this tutorial video I’m making polymer clay jewellery components using an old cane with a sheep design. Unfortunately I was on the struggle bus with this one and I tried several different techniques to use the old cane which was prone to cracking. Therefore there are examples for how not to use unconditioned polymer clay. Hopefully someone will find my problem solving journey helpful.
The finished components feature securely embedded wire so they can be used to make earrings or pendants with the addition of a few beads.
00:00 Intro
01:39 Slicing cane
03:37 Wire
05:47 Scrap clay backing
08:34 Adding cane slices
09:48 Bevel
11:17 Make pillow bead
12:38 Cane has cracked
14:06 Kintsugi
16:08 Mica faux kintsugi
19:47 Burnish cane slice
22:13 Change to flat beads
23:15 Add edging to baked beads
27:16 Outro
I originally filmed this as a live stream on my twitch channel. / fulgorine
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