Create beautiful polymer clay beads for jewelry and decoration with Making Polymer Clay Beads, a beginner’s guide to exploring the possibilities of this popular craft.

Learn how to handle and work with polymer clay—a synthetic clay that doesn’t shrink or change texture when cured—in a comprehensive introduction to materials, tools, and equipment for bead-making techniques.

Techniques range from conditioning raw clay and making simple shapes to decorating them with foils, powders, and millefiori. Produce fabulous faux effects like ivory, bone, turquoise, marble, and silver; create rounds, canes, and spirals; discover how to fold and sculpt to create dramatic variations.

With a gallery of beads by internationally renowned artists, Making Polymer Clay Beads provides inspiration and demonstrates the range of effects that can be achieved in polymer clay. Techniques for creating beautiful ornamental beads are clearly demonstrated with hundreds of step-by-step photographs of new beads designed by the author.

Master a technique and then experiment: switch colors, alter the scale, or play with scraps to make new beads. Then learn to incorporate these beads into jewelry designs. Discover the magic of working with polymer clay!

Paperbound, 8¾ x 8¾, 128 pages; 500 photographs; ISBN 10: 1-59668-019-9; ISBN 13:  978-159668-019-7