{"id":2343,"date":"2013-01-16T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2013-01-16T14:02:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T21:02:14","slug":"a-bundle-of-bails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/a-bundle-of-bails\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bundle of Bails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk bails. Some kind of contraption or addition or subtraction to a piece must be formed for pendants to do their hanging about a person&#8217;s neck. There are many approaches to this, with a good majority making the bail or connection either invisible or an accent, if even that. There is nothing inherently wrong with these approaches, but I just think its fantastic to have the bail as part of the pendant design. If it&#8217;s going to show, then let it shine.<\/p>\n<p>I consider <a href=\"http:\/\/polydogz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Waddington of PolyDogz<\/a> a kind of master bail-er. Although most of her bails are pretty simple in construction, they look like a necessary or at least a complimentary addition to the pendant&#8217;s design. Here is just one of her many interesting bail solutions. This one is directly integrated into the design&#8211;the pendant would be but half as stunning without it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/polydogz.com\/Gallery1\/Polymer-jewelry\/pen5\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2345\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/a-bundle-of-bails\/pen5-sized\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pen5.sized_.jpg?fit=463%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"463,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pen5.sized\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pen5.sized_.jpg?fit=430%2C594&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2345\" alt=\"pen5.sized\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pen5.sized_.jpg?resize=463%2C640\" width=\"463\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pen5.sized_.jpg?w=463&amp;ssl=1 463w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pen5.sized_.jpg?resize=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Different forms, overlaid shapes, textures, colorations, and ways of introducing the cord make her site a kind of treasury of bezel ideas. Oh &#8230; and her pendants are pretty darn fabulous, too.<\/p>\n<p>I shall not waste any more of your time blathering away. Your time would be better spent exploring <a href=\"http:\/\/polydogz.com\/Gallery1\/Polymer-jewelry?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Susan&#8217;s website<\/a> for ideas and inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk bails. Some kind of contraption or addition or subtraction to a piece must be formed for pendants to do their hanging about a person&#8217;s neck. There are many approaches to this, with a good majority making the bail or connection either invisible or an accent, if even that. There is nothing inherently wrong&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[702,705,12,11,703,704,16],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-bails","tag-polydogz","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-pendant","tag-susan-waddington","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-BN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}