{"id":5743,"date":"2014-01-26T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2014-01-24T19:48:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T02:48:50","slug":"polymer-or-porcelain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/polymer-or-porcelain\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymer or Porcelain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist a last little guessing game for this week.<\/p>\n<p>When I was looking through my Pinterest boards, I found this set of beautiful, organically inspired bracelets by Armenian artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sonagrig\/with\/8967911442\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sona Grigoryan<\/a>, but I couldn&#8217;t be sure if they were ceramic or polymer.\u00a0So what do think these are made of?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sonagrig\/8967911442\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5744\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/polymer-or-porcelain\/8967911442_647041a4d9_z\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/8967911442_647041a4d9_z.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,640\" 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=\"8967911442_647041a4d9_z\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/8967911442_647041a4d9_z.jpg?fit=430%2C573&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5744\" alt=\"8967911442_647041a4d9_z\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/8967911442_647041a4d9_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/8967911442_647041a4d9_z.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/8967911442_647041a4d9_z.jpg?resize=112%2C150&amp;ssl=1 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sona is an Armenian \u00a0living in Barcelona and she is in love with polymer clay. \u00a0I think it is the antiquing color added to these bracelets that give the polymer that almost translucent porcelain look. Most of her work would not make you think of polymer straight away. Her pieces look more like to be made of bone, wood or other natural materials. Take a few minutes or more to look through her fantastical work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sonagrig\/\" target=\"_blank\">on her Flickr pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover 13-P4 web\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Cover-13-P4-web.jpg?resize=122%2C158\" width=\"122\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/polymerclayworkshop.com\/cane-builder-subscription\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PCW_flower tile canes\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PCW_flower-tile-canes-480x480.jpg?resize=130%2C130\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhimsicalbead.com.au\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WhimsicalBead051512\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/WhimsicalBead051512.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist a last little guessing game for this week. When I was looking through my Pinterest boards, I found this set of beautiful, organically inspired bracelets by Armenian artist Sona Grigoryan, but I couldn&#8217;t be sure if they were ceramic or polymer.\u00a0So what do think these are made of? Sona is an Armenian&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":[2118,2123,717,2119,2122,2121,29,1687,2120,11,149,2117,16],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-armenian-artist","tag-bicycle-chain-necklace","tag-bracelets","tag-ceramic-bracelets","tag-gaudi","tag-gaudificate","tag-necklace","tag-polymer-arts","tag-polymer-bracelets","tag-polymer-clay","tag-sculptural-jewelry","tag-sona-grigoryan","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-1uD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","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=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}