{"id":2649,"date":"2013-02-20T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2013-02-20T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:51:33","slug":"patterning-with-mokume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/patterning-with-mokume\/","title":{"rendered":"Patterning with Mokume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How about today, while I wind up the release of the latest issue of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepoymerarts.com\" target=\"_blank\"> The Polymer Arts<\/a>, \u00a0we turn to the thoughts and detailed process of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/carolsimmonsdesigns.com\/2011\/more-metallic-mokume-gane-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carol Simmons<\/a>\u00a0as she worked through some experimentation with mokume a couple years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This beautiful metallic mokume is the result of Carol&#8217;s experimentation with arranging mokume strips in patterns as well as additional layers built from punched out shapes from the mokume sheet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carolsimmonsdesigns.com\/2011\/more-metallic-mokume-gane-2\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2650\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/patterning-with-mokume\/klimptesque-dark-5in1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/klimptesque-dark-5in1.jpg?fit=360%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"360,428\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-TZ1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1295451207&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"klimptesque-dark-5in1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/klimptesque-dark-5in1.jpg?fit=360%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2650\" alt=\"klimptesque-dark-5in1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/klimptesque-dark-5in1.jpg?resize=360%2C428\" width=\"360\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/klimptesque-dark-5in1.jpg?w=360&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/klimptesque-dark-5in1.jpg?resize=252%2C300&amp;ssl=1 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice reminder that even something as intricate as mokume can be pushed just a little farther for new and interesting effects. Read about her process on<a href=\"http:\/\/carolsimmonsdesigns.com\/2011\/more-metallic-mokume-gane-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Carol&#8217;s\u00a0blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about today, while I wind up the release of the latest issue of The Polymer Arts, \u00a0we turn to the thoughts and detailed process of\u00a0Carol Simmons\u00a0as she worked through some experimentation with mokume a couple years ago. This beautiful metallic mokume is the result of Carol&#8217;s experimentation with arranging mokume strips in patterns as&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":[72,91,12,11,787],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-carol-simmons","tag-mokume-gane","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-process"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-GJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","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=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}