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Sent: Monday, September
30, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: [MSATClayArt]
Beginners: Start at the Beginning
list's message archive. Go to the MSATClayArt Home Page http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CITY-o-Clay/ Then go to Messages http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CITY-o-Clay/messages/1 Then click "First" going back to the beginning of this list. All the questions that new clayers ask are answered in the beginning of this list history. This list was started with 50 miniaturists who were all fairly new to polymer clay. I was new to polymer clay and to miniatures so you can see my learning new things about the world of miniatures by reading the messages in the archives from the beginning. Clay Tools Books Techniques that are basic. The PhotoPoint links are dead, most of the tutorials mentioned with PhotoPoint are rebuilt on my site or are in storage at the Epson account. All those links are sent to all new list members. We have the welcome letters, reminder to snip excess off of replies, changing subject lines, links to ClayAlley, Glass Attic, the tutorials, everything. So do read what you get when you join the list for it was all sent to you to aid you in your clay journey. Read the list message archive if you want a step by step guide into the land of polymer clay and miniatures. It's all there. I'll show you how easy it is, I'll go find the first definition of "what is a cane" it's the 3 or 4th message in the archives. +++++ From: Nora-Jean Gatine <antalias@xxxxxxx.xxxx Date: Tue Jun 1, 1999 8:55 pm Subject: What is a Cane? Polymer clay uses some traditional glass works techniques. Glass workers use colored rods of glass, by layering these rods of color you get a pattern, when heated and stretched these patterns are then cut into little disks. Those disks are stuck to a bit of semisoft glass and then it is all reheated. It starts to get pretty fancy by then. Mille Fiori, a thousand flowers in Italian, uses this method of layering colors, pulling canes of colors to a smaller size, cutting off disks and plastering those patterned clay disks onto anything that it would adhere to. When we layer colors with polymer clay we can make a log of these different colored clays...we call that log a cane, like the Venetian glass bead makers. For those who know Japanese food, to picture a cane, picture a sushi made of clay. Bakers think of jelly roll. All these are "canes" in the clayer's sense of the word. xoxox NoraJean ++++ There, that took all of a couple of clicks. Check it out folks, those who are totally new to polymer clay. Those who started this list were new just like you. They were all excited and willing to share all they knew with each other. They set the tradition on this list of sharing. Since we also have the additional focus of Miniatures you'll learn about that too if you start from the beginning and just work through the first couple of weeks or months while we find our footing. You'll find your footing too. Just you wait and see, xoxo NJ
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