Recently I had a request for a set of buttons with gumnuts on them. For those who don’t know what a gumnut is, its the ‘capsule’ for the flower of the Eucalyptus tree. These are very common here in Australia and there are many different colours and shapes depending on the species. Here’s a photo [...]
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Millefiori, what’s that?
You may have seen some intricate polymer clay work around which has detailed images or patterns embedded in the clay and wondered, ‘is that painted on?’, ‘how do you do that?’. This technique is called millefiori, here’s its dictionary definition:
mil.le.fi.o.ri
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–noun
decorative glass made by fusing [...]
