Looking for that special personalised gift to give to your loved ones for that all important occasion?

Maybe then you should consider the potential that precious metal clays offer when it comes to allowing you to be creative and develop your own jewellery.

Precious metal clay comes in many different forms that each offer different styles and potential when it comes to developing your own personal jewellery styles.

Here we will explain four different forms of precious metal clay that can allow much higher creativity, meaning you will be able to experiment and find the style you are comfortable with.

Standard clay
First of all there is the standard form of clay that is both flexible and easy to get creative with.

This form of the precious metal clay is easy to roll out and shaped, meaning that you can mould your jewellery to the exact shape you desire, with flexibility not being a problem.

Textures are very easy to implement when the precious metal clay is wet and when dry you will be able to personalise to your heart’s content with adding carvings and final details bringing that all important personalised touch.

Syringe form of clay
The syringe form of clay may at first sound daunting, but if perfected you will find this form of the precious metal clay to be a very handy tool.

The syringe form does as it says on the tin; it is clay that has the right amount of water, binder and silver and then implemented through a device similar to a syringe.

This allows huge potential when you want to personalise your jewellery, with precision being something the syringe is great for. Think of it like icing a cake; imagine all the potential that you will be able to get out of a clay syringe.

Also, precious metal clay syringes are helpful when it comes to the more practical parts of designing your jewellery such as filling joints or gluing dry slabs together for example.

Slips or pastes
The higher content of water that is found in commercially prepared slips or pastes and is commonly used when it comes to binding, such as binding two pieces of precious metal clay for example.

Slips or pastes are great when trying to get creative with different texture forms or developing interesting designs with other objects. The potential of this form of clay is amazing, allowing you to introduce both silver and fused glass for example that can set apart your designs perfectly.

Sheet
Sheet metal clay is a very interesting form of the precious metal. Flexibility is key with the sheet form, with the binder used in this form of the precious metal being different from the other forms, and as such allows the metal to stay flexible for longer.

The potential here is vast, with intricate designs with both decorations or the weaving of beads for example coupled with the inclusion of other forms such as glass offers a wide array of personalisation techniques. So there are four different forms metal clays that you could possibly use when you are developing your own designs.

So let’s experiment and get creative with these forms and see what you can come up with when it comes to that special personalised gift.

Author Bio: Adam Hunter – E-commerce Marketing Manager of cooksongold.com. Cookson Precious Metals offer a choice of supplies from over 10,000 products including gold and silver wire, jewellery findings, tools, precious metal clay and art clay silver – gold, silver, platinum and palladium plus technical information for jewellers, jobbers, designer, craftsmen, artisans and students.

Category: Arts and Crafts
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