Black and White Polymer Cane Tutorial

With just black and white polymer clay, you can create an amazingly dramatic cane. Below, I'll list the steps I used to make it. The image on the left is also a great reference.

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1. Select three colors: I chose white, dark charcoal, and a medium gray.

2. Roll out medium gray on a size 9 and white on a size 7 using your pasta machine and layer strips: white, gray, white, gray, white, gray, white for a total of 4 white strips and 3 gray strips. Trim neatly into a rectangle.

3. Lay an extra piece of white along the bottom of the rectangle and pinch the top to create a more rounded top.

4. Reduce petal to 1/5 its original size and slice into 5 equal pieces.

5. Layer white, medium gray, and charcoal strips (#9 on pasta machine for all)

6. Roll layers from step five to create a spiral and reduce to about 1/3 of its size.

7. Wrap spiral cane in solid black (#9)

8. Reduce to size needed to match petals created in step 4

9. Slice piece of spiral cane to the same size as the petals and arrange the five petals around the spiral cane

10. Cut 5 equal portions of medium gray and mold into triangular shaped logs the same length as the flower

11. Use medium gray to fill the gaps between the petals


12. Wrap cane in medium gray (rolled out on a #9)

13. Smooth edges and reduce cane just slightly so that pieces are firmly combined

14. Take remainder of spiral cane from step 8 and reduce it to as small as you can

15. Cut the spiral cane into slices the same length as the flower cane and lay out flat

16. Roll flower cane over the layer of spiral canes and try to evenly distribute, reduce slightly to combine

17. Slice cane and use however you prefer

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