Winter 2018 / EN
POLYMER WEEK
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POLYMER WEEK MAGAZINE / WINTER 2018
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Have you found in this or previous Polymer Week Magazine an inspiration for your own creation? If yes, could you send a photo of your piece which you have made according to the magazine’s tutorials and we will be glad to reward you! Please send the photos of your creations to the email: magazine@polymerweek.com with a short text about you. We look forward to hearing from you!
For several years before my bedtime I had been dreaming of making my own magazine, maybe in a little naive way. I could imagine all those colourful pages, beautiful photos, unusual tutorials and the whole design. However what I could not imagine was the amount of work around it. Dozens of hours of editing, endless proofreading, taking photos, making up content, communicating with partners and authors, promoting... even few tears through exhaustion and liters of green tea. Even though I sometimes felt like ripping all the pages, and throw them into the trash, which is not what you can physically do with the data on your computer, I feel that creating a magazine in this small polymer community is one big commitment. One thing I could not have imagined in those dreams: That the Polymer Week Magazine could fly out to the world at such a speed and that it would be read by so many people from different countries and would be able to move the polymer community forward… and that’s only the third issue! I do not know a better feeling than bringing fresh inspiration and up-to-date topics to the polymer world. Especially thanks to the dozens people involved in each issue.
Photo by Nikola Bruncová
Together we leave traces in polymer clay history, thank you for it!
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5 - What’s new in the creative world? 6 - Interesting Projects 9 - Céline’s French Elegance 12 - Ice River Necklace 15 - Anarina Anar 16 - The Seaside Earrings 20 - Colourful Necklace 23 - The Creation Process by Olga Nicolas 26 - Winter Snowflakes 28 - Tangled Bracelet 30 - Arabesque Necklace 32 - Polymer Clay Tools 34 - Skandinav Cold 38 - Winter Sky 42 - From Cake Toppers to Clay Wonders 46 - Flower Bangle Bracelet 48 - The History of Silk Screening 50 - Three-dimensional Pendant 55 - Alessandro Venturini 56 - Frosted Necklace 58 - Polymer Clay Mirror 62 - Polymer Work Presentation 64 - Mandala earrings
www.magazine.polymerweek.com Polymer Week Magazine is published by LC Production, z.s. Domazlicka 1123/194, Pilsen, 301 00, Czech Republic magazine@polymerweek.com Editor in chief: Lucy Štruncová, Graphic design: Petra Vilímková, Translation: Veronika Sturdy Do not share any parts of the magazine without previous permission.
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ice river necklace Fineness, simplicity, minimalism, yet this necklace attracts at first glance. It consists of white stones with a satin smooth surface and hundreds of tiny particles of blue colour clay. Get in to it and make a necklace in your favourite colours.
Blanka Procházková She fell for polymer in 2011. She likes to add to her polymer jewellery elements of felting, wiring and macramé, sometimes tinning. She likes technically perfect, highly polished jewellery on the other hand the organic style is appealing to her as well. Apart from making polymer clay jewellery Blanka is dedicated to painting T-shirts, sculpting from Powertex, tinning jewellery, Tiffany technique and Silver Clay modelling. www.blankaprochazkova.cz
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