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Canework is
a technique for creating intricate surface design. Venetian
glass workers fused together multiple canes of glass to
stretch and draw into a single long cane. When viewed from
one end, a pattern resembling “a thousand flowers” is
evident. Slices cut from this cane and melted into the
surface of wound glass produced millefiore beads.
Polymer clay is also perfectly suited to canework. Multiple
canes, often wrapped or combined with several layers, are
compressed and stretched into a single long cane, reducing
the pattern without distortion. Slices from these canes
produce multiple identical images. Combining several such
canes produces complex canes.
Wool, too,
is at once painterly and sculptural. Explore and construct a
variety of canes using fine merino wool. Combine multiple
wool canes and felt them into dense and firm felt canes.
Slice the felt into intricately patterned felt beads. Design
and string a necklace of your felt beads finished with a
magnetic closure and assorted other beads. |
