Comments on: Lace and Ink Texture for Your Polymer Clay Bead Jewelry Projects

By: Phaedrakat

Phaedrakat — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:35:45 +0000

I keep forgetting how the videos (preview/intro) used to get posted after the initial article. FYI, here’s the link to the
Lace and Ink Texture/Technique — “tutorial” post.

By: Cherie

Cherie — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:15:58 +0000

Thanks Donna. Have to try this one soon.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:13:41 +0000

Once your clay is nicely conditioned,I put it the PM turning down a setting or two or my case til number five, then I go back to number one and put damped lace and clay throught together.This gives me a stamp 2mm thick. You may need to play with your settings and lace with clay dependindg on your PM. I use kato clay and this gives me a thin flexible stamp which goes through my PM. when using the stamp I also thin my clay to number five setting before putting stamp and clay through PM using water as a resist.

By: Cherie

Cherie — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:08:05 +0000

Just wanted to make sure I got it right. did you condition the clay at the #5 setting and then put the lace and clay thru at #1?

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:33:46 +0000

I recently made some texture samps from some vintage lace, some of which belonged to my mother. I just dampend the lace and put through the pasta machine with clay, which was well conditioned and put throughon a no 5 setting on my machine. Then lace and clay went through on a number 1 setting. Came out very well and have made earrings and a bracelet using the stamps.

By: Cindy Lietz@Cornstarch Release

Cindy Lietz@Cornstarch Release — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:24:43 +0000

I love all these comments. It is so nice to hear that you guys are thinking of sentimental ways you can incorporate your special lace pieces into your polymer clay jewelry designs!

As far as using cornstarch as a resist or release agent and making molds and such, there is already quite a bit of info on this site about those things. Just use the search box at the top of the page to find your answers. To be extra helpful you can come back here and let others know what you found. Hopefully this helps everyone to find answers sooner than always having to wait for me to answer them, since the volume of questions is now becoming pretty overwhelming for me to handle on my own.

By: Penny

Penny — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:37:33 +0000

Two things about lace – the inevitable marketing bit: Studio have produced some texture sheets and one is called Chantilly Lace, and secondly, I spent the last few years learning how to make bobbin lace – however, it is so fine my eyes didn’t let me continue – and I have found it is more fun painting and claying the bobbins!

By: Silverleaf

Silverleaf — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:58:18 +0000

Nottingham became famous for lace during the industrial revolution, so it got its name way before then.

Apparently it was once ruled by a Saxon chieftain named Snot and became known as “Snotingaham” which means “the homestead of Snot’s people”.

There we go, a history lesson at no extra charge! ;)

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:56:32 +0000

We’ll wait patiently for the video or someone to send us some help meanwhile I’m sure i can search around and find some piece of lace too. The lace tablecloth came from Israel and it’s an ecru shade and really beautiful.

By: carolyn

carolyn — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:53:54 +0000

Well, I found some lace in one of the drawers of the sewing cabinet that once was my grandmother’s. She used to make little clowns, stuffed with the punches from her s-i-l’s hole punch. I still have one of the clowns – no lace on him. She used to donate them to hospitals. Anyway, along with lots of rick-rack, and seam binding, I found some lace hem facing. I pass this along now for those of you who might be looking for lace for this project. This should work just great. Now all I need is a pigment ink stamp pad. We are in the midst of the ‘snow of the season’ so I don’t know when I will get off the mountain in order to shop in Carson City. It is even snowing there, which is rare.