{"id":3475,"date":"2013-05-29T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2013-05-28T23:09:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T05:09:47","slug":"polymer-only-linking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/polymer-only-linking\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymer-Only Linking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The one person who has probably spent more time than any other polymer artist exploring the possibilities of polymer-centric connections for jewelry is Maggie Maggio<\/a>. Her architectural design background makes pondering the capabilities of a material almost inevitable.<\/p>\n

One of her first experiments with polymer-only connections was the split ring. A roll of polymer is looped twice around and then baked to make split ring links. \u00a0This process of creating a ring of polymer that can be securely looped through other rings after baking creates beads that are not only beautiful and intriguing to work with, but are also really just a ton of fun to make. This Rose Chain is one of Maggie’s expanded versions of the polymer split ring, with an additional wrap of clay and added layers to create the fabric-like ruffles.<\/p>\n

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Intrigued by the split ring idea but haven’t tried it yet? Take a couple minutes to view Maggie’s split ring video tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maggie has also successfully created polymer hooks<\/a>\u00a0and jewelry that wraps around the neck or arm<\/a>,\u00a0so that no metal or other findings are needed. Check out her other finding-less creations on her website<\/a>, and follow her adventures in polymer and color on her Smashing Color blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The one person who has probably spent more time than any other polymer artist exploring the possibilities of polymer-centric connections for jewelry is Maggie Maggio. Her architectural design background makes pondering the capabilities of a material almost inevitable. One of her first experiments with polymer-only connections was the split ring. A roll of polymer is…<\/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":[1048,166,179,29,12,11,1049,1047,298],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-connections","tag-jewelry","tag-maggie-maggio","tag-necklace","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-only-connectors","tag-split-ring","tag-tutorial"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-U3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","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=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}