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Embedded Glass Beads and Mosaic Techniques Lead to a Stunning Piece of Polymer Clay Jewelry:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Today I wanted to show you all this incredible piece of jewelry from Israeli artist Naama Zamir! This beautiful handmade brooch<\/span> design was made by combining tiny strips of polymer clay, leaf canes, seed beads and a sparkling crystal. It comes from Zamir’s jewellry collection that she affectionately calls the Sisyphean Line<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Not having a clue what Sisyphean meant, I had to do a bit of research which turned out to be fun. Turns out that Sisyphean means ‘impossible task’… pointless or meaningless. It comes from Greek mythology where Sisypheus was given the eternal task of rolling a stone up a hill in Hades, only to have it roll down the other side where he would have to begin the task all over again.<\/span><\/p>\n Although I can’t even imagine applying the “pointless or meaningless” part of the Sisyphean definition to Naama’s work, I do know that she must exercise a great deal of patience when she creates her wonderful jewelry pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n One of the things I really love about her mosaic jewelry brooch design is the colors. The way the purple stone radiates circles of deep purple, orange and green. It has a rich old world feel to it… like the colors of an ancient Egyptian masterpiece.<\/span><\/p>\n And the shape… so organic and earthy. Like a stone shard that had been buried for centuries, finally to have been uncovered and polished to its original glory!<\/span><\/p>\n Naama thinks the Sisyphean reference has run its course and is asking for ideas to help her come up with a new name. One that pops into my head each time I look at her line is, ‘Earth Mother Mosaics’. Not sure why, just does. Do you guys have any ideas to share with Naama?<\/span><\/p>\n Naama Zamir is a polymer clay artist from Israel. She is the founder of the Israeli Polymer Clay Guild and has published a small instructional polymer clay book in Hebrew. Naama sells her beautiful bead mosaic jewelry brooch designs as well as many other pieces of polymer clay art on Etsy. She is a close friend and colleague of Iris Mishly<\/a> who I wrote about in a previous post.<\/span><\/p>\n Embedded Glass Beads and Mosaic Techniques Lead to a Stunning Piece of Polymer Clay Jewelry: Today I wanted to show you all this… 24<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,73,28],"tags":[2673,2681,1005,188,2702,989],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cane-work","category-feature-guests","category-inspiration","tag-polymer-clay-hair-accessories-nailart","tag-cane-making","tag-israel","tag-jewelry","tag-mixed-media-scrapbooking","tag-non-polymer-beads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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