Polymer clay is one of the most popular and versatile media available to crafters, lending itself to a variety of applications from decorative boxes, mosaics, and miniature models to beads, buttons, and jewelry. This comprehensive book features step-by-step instructions in more than 50 techniques, including exciting ways to work with new materials such as liquids and metal clays. Clear photographs demonstrate basic skills such as rolling, color mixing, marbling, and baking, progressing to more challenging methods of shaping, molding, and sculpting clay.

Create intricate patterns using millefiori techniques; embellish your work with metallic powders, golf leaf, stamps, and paint; choose from recipes for creating faux effects such as jade, amber, lapis lazuli, turquoise, abalone, and mokume gane.

160 pages . Hardbound. © 2007.
ISBN: 9780762430871.
Order Number: CB2671. Price: $27.95