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• Format: Color, Studio, Full length
• Region: All Regions
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001OK41Q4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,156 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Take your front-row seat at a Tory Hughes workshop! Tory, award-winning artist and teacher, shares her innovative techniques with polymer clay and mixed media. Here she shows you the approaches that fill her classes with happy students all around the world! On this DVD: Mokume Gane is the ultimate "oh wow!" My version of this classic Japanese metalworking technique shows you how to create endlessly gorgeous, varying patterned layers of polymer. Then you'll apply these to a cariety of objects. Integrate different colors, opacities, metallic effects, and translucent layers. Make a dramatic large focal bead, a flattened pendant bead, a barrette, and four different brooches. Materials and tools lists are enclosed. Enjoy! Tory

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5.0 out of 5 stars clear demonstration makes all the difference, March 12, 2009

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This review is from: Mokume Gane in Polymer Clay (Mastering the New Clay with Tory Hughes Vol. 6) (DVD)

When I was just learning to cook, the explanation for how to make baked beans began with the instruction to spread out the beans in a shallow pan and sort them. I did that. I rolled those beans all around that pan, but they all looked the same size and color. I went on "sorting beans" like that for years before someone happened to watch me... and show me that "sorting beans" is an instruction left over from the days when beans were home raised, and the sorting was about taking out any small debris that might be left from gathering/drying the beans. Watching this dvd was like that. I'd been doing mokume gane for a year, and "everyone" knows to stick the clay onto the tile before cutting. Well, wait to you see what that means. And it's as easy to do as giving up bean sorting.

This tape shows the mokume gane process, from start to finish, and includes the reasoning behind each step. It's like a magician revealing the simplicity of the tricks. Aimed at newcomers, I suppose, but inspirational for the I-already-know-how-to-cook-beans set.