{"id":294,"date":"2012-06-29T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2012-06-27T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T20:30:03","slug":"outside-inspiration-soutache-in-the-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/outside-inspiration-soutache-in-the-extreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside Inspiration: Soutache in the Extreme"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple weeks ago, Cynthia posted a piece on Polymer Clay Daily about faux soutache<\/a> done in polymer clay by Olimpia Corvino<\/a>.I had just been perusing an actually soutache artist’s site a couple days before but couldn’t find it at the time. Well, it was an Etsy store and here is the piece that drew me in and had me investigating.<\/p>\n

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This piece by Miriam Shimon<\/a>\u00a0is titled \u201cOnce Upon a Time\u201d and is a Bead Dreams 2012 Finalist piece. Obviously! Well, I didn\u2019t see the rest of the competition but this just blew me away. If you are unfamiliar with soutache, it is simply a narrow and flat decorative type of trim used with drapery or clothing, usually to hide a seam. Not dissimilar from flattened ropes of polymer (hint, hint!) As demonstrated by Olimpia, there are such possibilities in terms of borrowing form, flow, and detail, for a polymer artist to borrow from this bead and fiber art form.<\/p>\n

And, besides,\u00a0 it\u2019s just so darn pretty to look at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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