You may have recognized these bracelets as the work of\u00a0Helen Breil<\/a>,\u00a0an amazing artist with an intensely creative yet practical approach to jewelry art. She is the author of one of the most unique how-to books for polymer,\u00a0Shapes<\/a>. Her\u00a0sophisticated\u00a0bracelets popped directly to mind when I started thinking about what we have to consider when constructing bracelets.<\/p>\n Bettina Welker was the other that came to mind. I introduced you to one of her more ingenious bracelet constructions<\/a> in February. Bettina has quite a number of interesting and problem solving ways to build, hinge and close a bracelet in her book Polymer Clay Bracelets<\/a>. If you have an interest in pushing beyond the usual with bracelets, you’ll really want to get your hands on this book.<\/p>\n By the way, both Helen and Bettina’s books were reviewed in our Spring issue of The Polymer Arts magazine<\/a>\u00a0with sample pages and\u00a0titillating\u00a0previews of some of the ideas inside. Get your copy at www.thepolymerarts.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So today let’s talk bracelets. Bracelets have a consideration that necklaces and earrings do not in that they will regularly be knocked and rubbed against a wide variety of objects so they need to be durable and their surfaces need to be able to take some wear. That is probably why the three primary constructions…<\/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":[324,300,717,935,17,758,166,931,12,11,16],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-bettina-welker","tag-bracelet","tag-bracelets","tag-construction","tag-design","tag-helen-breil","tag-jewelry","tag-jewelry-art","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-OG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","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=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"breil-bracelets\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/breil-bracelets.jpg?resize=439%2C362\")
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