When soft,it can be imprinted and painted,mixed with pigments of any color, and adhered to thousands of other materials. Once hardened, polymer clay's forms and surface treatments are beautifully permanent. It's the perfect material for crafters.

What is polymer clay? Unlike water-based clays, this manmade material remains soft and pliable virtually indefinitely--until it's cured at the temperature of an ordinary home oven. When soft,it can be imprinted and painted,mixed with pigments of any color, and adhered to thousands of other materials. Once hardened, polymer clay's forms and surface treatments are beautifully permanent. It's the perfect material for crafters.

These remarkable properties have inspired some of today's most talented artists to create a variety of one-of-a-kind designs. The works were selected not only for their beauty, but because of the many ways they stretch the possibilities of the medium. By combining polymer clay with such materials as wire, fabric, pearls, glass beads, gold leaf, handmade papers,exotic woods, leather, seeds, shells, and other surprising objects, each work demonstrates the infinite adaptability of this wonderfully versatile material.

The many techniques used include canework,millefiori, image transfer, molding, mokume gane,rubber stamping, embossing,and painting. The works explore the full range of the new medium in sculpture,jewelry, vessels, boxes, dollseven furniture and garments.

These extraordinary designs will delight and inspire collectors, art lovers.and artists everywhere.

INTRODUCTION

POLYMER CLAY OBJECTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX