{"id":111,"date":"2010-01-05T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynneglazzard.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2010\/01\/05\/playing-with-paper-clay\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T11:09:00","slug":"playing-with-paper-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/2010\/01\/05\/playing-with-paper-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with paper clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent quite a bit of time playing around with the art clay silver paper type. &nbsp;I have used it for a few things in the past but never really enjoyed handling it or exploited its particular properties. &nbsp;I have used it to cut patterns and create an overlay but yesterday finally realised it would be perfect for making the tiny curled flowers I used to make using copper shim. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway here are some of the bits I made yesterday which were more successful than any previous attempts although I have no idea what I will do with them.<\/p>\n<p>I have created the texture by putting the fresh paper clay between a folded sheet of paper with a piece of fabric and feeding it through my rolling mill. &nbsp;You have to be careful not to get the pressure too tight or it causes wrinkles and creases which then become weak spots in the sheet. &nbsp;I have then cut out the pieces using a couple of craft punches and twisted and fired them, following the firing instructions in the packet.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t have a great deal of strength but were polished in my magnetic polisher without any ill effects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_AiA7HHbtlYk\/S0MeBWXgZ9I\/AAAAAAAABd4\/xTtGNRwBOVs\/s1600-h\/Paper-clay-type-curls.jpg\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_AiA7HHbtlYk\/S0MeBWXgZ9I\/AAAAAAAABd4\/xTtGNRwBOVs\/s320\/Paper-clay-type-curls.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I will have to order some more of the paper type now so that I can carry on with this experimentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent quite a bit of time playing around with the art clay silver paper type. &nbsp;I have used it for a few things in the past but never really enjoyed handling it or exploited its particular properties. &nbsp;I have used it to cut patterns and create an overlay but yesterday finally realised it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,108,139],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}