Techniques-Types... summary
Beginner canes ...summary of easier canes to start with
INSERTION
..... insertion techniques ...removal & insertion
WRAPPED:
...Bullseye ..."lacey"
......Mosaic
LAYERS:
...Spiral (jellyroll)...single or multiple spirals... uses
...Folded
...Striped, stacked
......basketweave
......graduated ... bargello (caned)
......diagonal ....feather canes
......other ways to use stacks
......Ikat, crushed ikat
..... checkerboard
LATER MANIPULATIONS
... indention
... lengthwise cuts
... "slice painting" with canes
SYMMETRY & REPETITION
....Gen. Info
...Triangular canes (uses, variations)
.....definitions+gen.info ...in rows
.....square canes (canes end up square)
.....triangular "kaleidoscope" canes (pizza slices put together radially)
.........variables...snowflakes....misc
OTHER SYMMETRICAL GEOM. canes
....wedges (spliced, flame)
...misc complex canes ...Celtic knot
...animal skins
OTHER CANES & TECH's
Quilt
Plaid & fabrics
Flowers
....gen. ....more flower websites
....slice painting with flowers, leaves
....real-flowers inspiration
Leaves
Misc non-geometric....silhouette... seasonal (Xmas,etc) ... eyes ...Chop 'N Toss
TRANSLUCENT canes
...translucent+opaque canes ( "floating slices")
......gen. info ...examples, lessons ...more complex, esp.flowers/leaves
...additions & others... other ways to cut
PICTURE canes (very complex canes)
....examples ... more info
....landscape

MISC. tips, techniques, uses
WEBSITES for all
...pre-made canes ... custom-made canes & cane components
More on symmetry

the Canes--what are they? page ( What are they?) discusses what caning, and millefiori, actually are in the first place

OVERALL Techniques --summary

SUMMARY from CANES-INFO:
... insertions
.....cutting across a log lengthwise (completely or partway), or cutting bits out of a log's edge, or making a hole (or cutter-shaped hole) down the length inside the log ... then placing a new sheet or log of clay into the space created ...pressing all back together
...wrapped (creating bullseye patterns)
.......wrapping a sheet of clay around logs or other shapes of clay (then changing shape of log if wanted)
...spiral --aka jellyroll (can also result in bullseye patterns too if the clay used is a thin Skinner blend)
........rolling up different-colored thin sheets of clay from one end to the other
....folded...accordion-folding, or otherwise folding, layered sheets of clay which have been made into long, thin strips
...striped "loafs"... layered sheets of clay which are not made thinner
..."picture" canes (and many "complex" geometric canes) are usually made by forming different-shaped logsand slabs of clay... then combining these component pieces together much as one would put together a jigsaw puzzle (except that the puzzle pieces will be long, or thick, and the pattern is seen only at each end).

A cane of any shape (though they're usually round or rectangular) can be manipulated into another cane shape, e.g., into a leaf shape, paisley shape, flattened lozenge shape, etc. (see more in morphing canes below in Bullseye canes)

Canes may also be combined with other (different or slightly-different canes) to create multi-cane canes.
...And canes can also be combined with striped loaves, or any other random or patterned "loaf" of clay, to create a collage of patterns
. . . or some of the resulting "cane" slice may have been trimmed to feature a desired area of pattern
...Heather P's combined into one non-symmetrical "canes" are sort of examples:
http://heatherpowers.bizhosting.com/necklaces.html and http://heatherpowers.bizhosting.com/pendants.html

complex canes (esp. "picture" canes) can be created by adding together component canes or logs, or wraps, etc ...for those, see below in Complex Canes)
.......for example, Candy's many lessons on making complex canes with the component method http://www.velocity.net/~cam/
(...for even more ways of creating complex canes, see also Canes-Gen > Gen Info)
(...for more ways of creating "picture canes" see Slice Painting below)

"floating" translucent canes . . . (made with slices from all translucent, or some opaque parts and some translucent, parts) can also be applied over other canes or surfaces (mokume gane, e.g.) to create a fantastic floating effect
(...see "Translucent" canes below, for much more on this technique)
(...see also "Slice Painting " flat applique technique below)

Cathy's varied. geometric cane patterns (in black, white and gray)
http://gallery.gundo.com/gallery/kCanework/SweetEarthCathyCanesBW
Kathy G's various square (geometric) canes
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4153008&a=31727587&f=0
Amy K's lessons on making some very simple canes, then covering a frame with them
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayArticle?articleNum=as0077
Miriam's unusual "mosaic" of woman's bust, outline filled in with thick slices of spiral canes, rolled-up noodles, and features
http://bussola.supereva.it/italyclay/book/foto/miriam2.jpg
**many canes and unusual patterns . . .mostly created with caning by James L ehman (can't describe all these... have to see to believe). . . some fabric -like
http://www.akrobiz.com/polymer_clay/i_20.html
http://www.akrobiz.com/polymer_clay/gallery_index.html (canes all over the place!)

(see Blends for discrete and continuous blend cane techniques --Skinner Blends, City Zen Cane, etc.)
(see Canes--Gen. for all kinds of ways to use Unloved Canes)
(see Folded Canes below for folding and bending long strips of layered color to create canes)

BEGINNER Canes

It's a good idea to start getting familiar with caning by making a few of the basic "types" of canes.
...most all other canes you make will depend on a knowledge of the basic techniques used in these canes
...("component" type canes --which create a picture or pattern by putting various long clay shapes together into one long bundle-- can be simple, all the way up to the hardest-canes-to-do, and will generally be made up from these simpler canes anyway, so it's best to avoid those in the beginning.)

Bullseye cane...(also called a Wrapped cane because that's the basic technique used for making one)
(see many more lessons/photos below in Bullseye)
...make a short fat log of clay... roll a different color clay into a sheet...place the log on the sheet near one end
...using the length of the log as a guide, trim the sheet to a strip that's only that width.. & trim one end of the strip so it's an exact right angle
......roll the fat log over the sheet, taking the strip with you, till the wrap makes one revolution... the first edge of the strip should leave a faint mark on the clay where it ends... trim off the rest of the strip just inside that mark... press seams together if necessary to butt them, then roll the cane on the work surface to smooth out the seam
...reduce the cane (by stretching and/or rolling it) till it's the diameter you want
...then cut thin or thick "slices" from either end of the cane since the pattern will run all the way through it (..the very ends of the cane may have a distorted pattern inside though, esp. for more complex canes)... let cool before slicing if using a soft clay

To make a more complex cane from this cane alone, reduce the cane a lot
.......then cut a number of same-length pieces from it ...put the lengths together side by side to make a "lace" cane (perhaps save one part of the original size cane before doing this for other uses)
...you can also put multiple wraps around the cane using different colored sheets (only one complete wrap at a time though)
...or do all kinds of other things
(...later learn how to make a gradient "bullseye" cane by using a "Skinner blend" sheet of 2 colors, instead of 2 solid colors --which btw is actually a spiral cane that just ends up looking like a bullseye cane)

canes made with layers or "stacks"

Spiral cane (also called a Jellyroll cane)
(see many more lessons/photos below in Spiral)
...this one starts with two rectangular sheets of clay the same size, one on top of the other...roll over (or pasta machine) the stack of layers to make them into a long thin strip
...roll up the long strip of layers just like a jellyroll, beginning at one of the short sides... roll a bit to eliminate seam
(...the longer and thinner the layers before rolling up, the more revolutions the spiral will have)
...you can also use more than 2 colors for the layers, or make some layers thicker than others, or put a very thin layer of black/etc. between each of the colored layers, etc.

Stripes cane
(see many more lessons/photos below in Striped, Stacked)
...begin with a stack of sheets of different colors (or just alternate 2 colors, etc.)... trim to make all layers the same width and length
...you can create those layers as a "loaf" to use in certain ways, or you can make a "square" cane by reducing the stack till it's long and slender
.....use the long square cane as is ...or, for example, you could make a "basketweave pattern" by cutting the cane into 4 same-length pieces and rejoining them by turning every other one 90 degrees, like a 4-unit checkerboard (... repeat the cutting and rejoining to create a basketweave pattern with more than 4 units)

Folded cane
(see many more lessons/photos below in Folded)
...begin with at least two sheet layers... then make them into a really long and thin strip (of layers)
...fold the strip back and forth accordion-style, or around in loops, or just any way you want... then press together into a cane
...you can also add small ropes or sheets of contrasting clay in-between the folds or inside the loops, etc, as you go

canes made with "later manipulations"

Insertion
(see many more lessons/photos below in Insertion)
...make a round or a square shape of clay from a solid color (say, 1" tall and 1" wide), or use a premade cane
...using a long blade, cut down across the cane (anywhere), and separate the two parts
...put a thin sheet of clay against the surface of one of the cut sides, then put the two pieces back together (trim off the extra clay)
......you can repeat this process as many times as you want --with different colored sheets or all the same color sheets
......could look like "plaid" cane if you wanted, or you could use the insertion technique to put a vein inside a leaf cane (bullseye cane, cut across cane or only part way, insert vein color, then shape cane as leaf)

Indention
(see many more lessons/photos below in Indention)
... use a cane you've made already --if you use a spiral cane that has lots of revolutions, you'll end up with a "chrysanthemum" cane
...use the edge of a credit card or something similar to press down into the cane, almost to the center, from the outside, and make the indentions all the way around the cane (like adding bicycle spokes or sun rays), let's say at least 6-7 times
....leave the cane with it's petal-like indentions, or roll the cane smooth
(...if you don't have a credit card, you can press down with a thin stylus, the back edge of a butter knife, etc.)

more easy cane fun

You can also take any of those canes (or a combination of them) and make a very-complex-pattern cane from it (or them) by simply reducing, cutting into same-length pieces, and rejoining them. ...The pattern will get smaller and smaller, and also there will be a more complex pattern (roll that new cane to join those cane lengths together seamlessly).
...if the cane you started with is not totally symmetrical, you can pay attention to the orientation in which you put the cane lengths from a single cane back together and then create all kinds of complex "kaleidoscope" canes and various kinds of symmetrical patterned canes (see many more lessons/photos below in Symmetry & Repetition)

Another useful thing to do with any canes is to make a "pattern sheet" from them.
(see many more lessons/photos on the page Sheets of Pattern)
...roll out a sheet of clay (plain or patterned).... cut thin slices of any of your canes and lay them on the sheet (you can wait till you've put on all the slices you want before flattening the whole thing into a pattern sheet, or you can roll in each slice separately)
(... the thinner the slices, the less they'll spread out when you flatten them into the sheet)
....you can put these slices randomly all over the sheet, or in grids or patterns, or you can overlap them over each other (with or without the base sheet)
..use the new pattern sheet for "covering" something, or cut out a shape of it with a cookie or smaller cutter/etc. and make a pendant or use as an onlay for something else, or make clothing for little figures, etc, etc.

(see Canes-Info for tips on successful cane making techniques + slicing canes, etc.)
(see Canes-Reducing for ways to reduce canes and tips)

INSERTION

Logs or canes can be cut completely across (lengthwise) or partly across (from a standing or lying cane position)
...then spread apart
...then a new sheet or log or cane of clay can be inserted into the space created
...all parts then pressed back together
...can be repeated many times... or cuts can be made in diff. directions, have different things inserted, etc.)
Another form of insertion is cutting out a hole in the interior area of a cane, then putting other clay back in the hole (like an eye or mouth in a face cane or a moon in a landscape cane)... also called the "plug" method

Examples of cutting only partway across: (often used in flower petal canes-- where a log or cane is cut several times to receive stamens or radiating lines):
...turkeymama's lesson on translucent flower (with several insertions in petal )
http://www.geocities.com/turkeymama/UPCG/tutorialpics/flowerwithgraphics.html
...Dawn's lesson at PCC on inserting one tiny log into a rolled up blend sheet for a flower petal
http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/cyclopedia/dazee.html

Examples of of cutting completely across:
....Ginny 's lesson on inserting *many* random sheets of color all the way across the cane; she then combined the resulting segmented canes and ended up with a line pattern--see kaleidoscope method below)
http://imagesinthewisnd.homestead.com/noname.html
(also see plaid cane below in Plaid & Other Fabrics)
...Joanie's lesson on inserting slices from a striped stack all the way across the cane.. also wraps the cane with them
http://www.pbase.com/joanie/combine
...Martha's lesson on making a Skinner Blend bullseye cane into a more complicated form by cutting it across 3 times and inserting a layer of black
http://www.pcpolyzine.com/0208august/geo.html
...Barbara McGuire's lesson on using a wavy blade to cut a 2x2" loaf of silver clay 5 times, then inserting a thin sandwiched black-white-black sheet between each wavy slice...she then pinches one end of the cane to create a wavy fan effectclay
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/crafting/article/0,1789,HGTV_3352_1399717,00.html
Pinchy's lesson on using a wavy blade to cut veins in a Skinner log before inserting for a leaf cane
http://www.geocities.com/pinchyspolymerplace/rippleleafcane.htm
Claudine's lesson on accordion folding a very long Skinner Blend...she turns the stack into the body cane for a tropical fish ...she saves a section of the stack for the tail... then she cuts the stack into 6 thick slices (so she has one color for each "slice"), then inserts sheet of black and white between each slice before rejoining
...later inserts an eye cane in a hole she creates in the stack (+ a blend-cane tail, plus fins, head, etc.)
http://tinyurl.com/3za7y (middle of the page) (in English) ......or http://www.essi.fr/~claudine/Fimo/Explications/poisson.htm
Elissa's lesson on cutting and rearranging a mosaic cane, adding a wrap color between segments, then using slices
http://www.pcpolyzine.com/may2001/mosaic.html
Sunni's lesson on inserting sheets of gray into translucent to create a spider web cane
http://sunnisan.com/crafts/spiderweb.html
Nora Jean's & Teri's insertion of black sheets (parallel and v-shaped, partway through or all the way) in rolled Skinner blend for tiger in--lesson ...zebra and others also?
http://www.norajean.com/Animal-cane.htm
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4023576&a=30221650&f=0
Lanin's lesson on Star of David cane by making 2 sets of 3 cuts, inserting a sheet of clay , then closing
http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/sod.html
Jennifer S's rock purse flower with insertion in petals which are then shaped (website gone)
Mia's insertion of Skinner round blend canes into layers of stripes (sheet wrapped around a pen)
http://www.clayfulmingles.com/pensets.html (pen # 5) (gone, but coming back?)
Tonja's joined segments of diff. colored flame or ikat patterns..multiple, very thin stripes with one set into the other color almost all the way across
http://www.tonjastreasures.com/jewelry2/tn12.htm (wrong photo )
(see also Kerstin's icy snowflakes below in Kaleidoscope canes > snowflakes)

Pinchy's lesson on inserting wrapped stacks of leaf color into the top of a strawberry (for a cane), & her shell cane made with accordion-folded multiple blend sheet & insertions in a fan shape
http://www.geocities.com/pinchyspolymerplace/strawberry3.htm
http://www.geocities.com/pinchyspolymerplace/ashellcane.htm

It's also possible to insert metallic leaf, powders, or paint instead of clay sheets (one sheet or layer of sheets) or logs or even canes being inserted between the cuts, but don't reduce those canes because the added stuff will spread too much and be difficult to see.
...Cindy's lesson on inserting metallic leaf between cut layers of a (Skinner blend) cane (both horizontally and vertically) before slicing, so that only a thin-line grid of silver is visible in the slice
http://www.cindysartandsoul.com/silver.html
...Pamela's lesson on making a grid cane by inserting a scrap sheet (from proj.) with metallic leaf betw. layers of translucent stack (each layer beg. with a strip of translucent with leaf or foil, & alcohol inks painted on in 4 sections)
http://www.clayobsession.com/tutorial1.html

Cindy P's lesson on inserting tiny logs on each slice from a blend stack between slices of a Skinner blend plug stack, which are also staggered when reassembling (more below in Stripes)
http://www.cindysartandsoul.com/flowercane.html
Naamaza's lesson on inserting large, wrapped log + sheet of wrap color into a Skinner blend plug stack ...creating a dot-streaked effect for leaf cane
http://www.naamaza.com/site/detail/detail/detailDetp?detail_id=114728&depart_id=2431
Cindy's insertion of thin clay sheets between cut layers of a blend cane cindysartandsoul.com(gone)
*Karen T's gorgeous Skinner multiple-petal flower around inserted and other center (dots)
http://www.tlcnet.com/~polyclay/ktenny2.jpg (gone, or somewhere else at beadyeyedbrat.com?)

Gear cane (Pier Voulkos)
...pattern created is like a round gear, with dots just inside the outer edges of a cane (she adds a dot in the middle of the cane also).
.....Place 8 or so tiny logs of one color, onto a larger log of another color. Roll into round cane, forcing tiny logs into the larger one (or indent a small trench first)
......Wrap with another color of clay . . .. Using a toothpick or skewer, twist a hole into the middle of the log and roll the skewer until the hole enlarges some.
.....Drop a small log of another color into the hole and press, filing hole (can dust with cornstarch first)
......Roll into a (round or) square cane; cut and recombine.
...... could also use canes instead of solid-color logs ... e.g., bullseye, Skinner Blend bullseye, automatically-wrapped bullseye canes which change color (created in a clay gun), spirals or just any cane
(see also Lisa's similar effect of dots with different technique, below in Flowers)

Logs (or actual canes) can be manipulated after rolling not only with the hands, a brayer, blade, or credit card as above, but with tools which can be made (or found around the house) which would alter the shape of the log.... these could be made for specific shapes like heart canes:
Candice's lesson on making a "heart-shaping" tool
http://polymerclaycentral.com/cyclopedia/heart_tool.html
......but also to create different shapes for "indention & insertion," or to create component puzzle pieces for canes.
This would be especially useful for making multiples of a log, etc.

removal of clay, then insertion

Or logs or canes can have bits cut out of their edges, or holes (of various shapes) c ut out inside the log or cane (not touching edges)
... after that clay is removed, new clay or canes, etc., are put in the cut-out sections
...... one example in a complex cane could be face canes, in which sections of blank face are cut out and removed, then filled in with eye canes or mouth canes (Faces > Plug method) or a moon in inserted into a landscape cane

for more on removing parts from the outside of a slab or cane, and filling back in with the same shape of other clay or patterned clay (creating mountains, e.g.) ...see below in "Landscape Canes" ...and also in Cutters/Blades > Blades >Bending
...some food garnishing tools might be sharp enough to make these outer cuts rather than single stroke cuts from a blade or bending a blade

--for more insertion ideas, see also below in Quilt > Collage Sheets, Flame cane, Spirals, and Ikat

HOLES
Monica's quarter moon with inserted mouth cane (in profile)
http://dadacasa.supereva.it/lara/corsi/luna-e.htm
..see also Claudine's and Carolyn's lessons on making fish canes this way below in Picture Canes... eye cane is inserted into body to create non-round holes which could be filled with clay or canes in the same way
(also see more on basic technique in Faces > Plug Method )

Some silhouette-type canes ( e.g., star or heart cane) can also be made with shape cutters and insertion
(see places to buy many cutters --tiny to large-- in Cutters >Suppliers)
...lesson: ....Flatten two contrasting colors of polymer clay into wads not qute as tall as your star-shaped cookie cutter.
...Use the cutter to cut the center out of each. . . .then swap the colors of clay. You'll end up making two canes at once.
...Squared-canes are often easier to add to backgrounds, so if you want one cut the outside edges of the background color so that you have a squared-off block to reduce with a brayer (you might need to use a mold release to easily remove the clay from the cutter. If you do, be sure to remove the mold release from the clay (wash it off?) so it won't release from the other clay that you insert it into. Irene NC
...I always had a problem with stuffing the star back into the opening till I saw Donna Kato do one on Carol Duvall. She cut the background color from the end of one point to the outside and separated the opening enough to insert the star.Jean/PA
. . . small plastic cookie cutters from the $1 store. .... (I used a butterfly cutter to cut sheets of marbled scrap clay)...
I did make a good cane from the star cutter. I made 2 flat, round blocks of clay as thick as could be cut by the cutter and slightly bigger around than the cutter. One was blue, and one was red and white striped. I cut a star out of the center of each one with the cutter and wrapped the edges of the cutout in a very thin strip of black. I carefully inserted the stars back in the circles, switching them--replacing the blue cutout with the striped and vice versa. You may have to stretch the "hole" a little to fit the star back in, since it is now outlined in black. Then I very gently rolled each round block on its side until it made a longer thinner cane. Suzanne
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=279317&uid=149408 (stars in Uncle Sam earrings)

BULLSEYE ("WRAPPED") canes

Bullseye canes are often also called "wrapped" canes because this reflects how they are created (...bullseyes are what they look like on completion)

These can be used in many ways, alone or in combination with other simple or complex cane components (and they can also be used in other ways aside from caning)
...Just as with the spiral canes and striped canes, the effects created with wrapped canes can be very sophisticated or they can be quite simple
........this will depend on color variation, placement & orientation, shape, size, porportion, combinations, whether they are cut into lengths and recombined etc.
...they can also be pressed or otherwise formed into different shaped canes (no longer round) before combining with other canes or using elsewhere (for example in making a picture cane)

BASIC lesson:
.......roll a short thick log with one color (will be center color)
.......flatten another color (outer ring color) into a sheet at least large enough to cover the log (or pasta machine a sheet of the thickness you want --use double layers if nec)
.....lay sheet on work surface and make 2 cuts ( L cut) to create 2 (perpendicular) "straight edges"
.....lay log on top of sheet (shorten or lengthen as necessary**), with one end at edge of longer cut
.... press the shortest straight edge to log a bit
.....roll log to wrap it with the sheet
........overwrap the sheet a little bit, then pull back the sheet end and you'll see a slight indention mark
........if your sheet is fairly thin, just cut on the mark
............but if your sheet is thicker, cut just before the mark --about the same distance less as the thickness of your sheet (it's better to cut it a little too short than too long)
........butt the sheet edges together and press the edges closed (the clay will stretch at bit)
(do not OVERLAP the sheet ends or you will have a fatter area of clay in the wrap of your final cane)
.......cut off excess wrap clay and log clay at end (far enough that the bullseye is correct propotional size)
**the proportional thickness of log clay to wrap clay will determine the final look of the bullseye (thin vs. thick wrap)

You can wrap the cane once or many times
...the wraps can be thin or thick

Bullseye canes can be used in many ways; they can be:
1. cut into 2 or more lengths (crosswise) and combined many times to form a "lacey" cane
http://www.desiredcreations.com/howTo_CABullseyeLaceCane.htm
(closeup) http://www.desiredcreations.com/images/galleryTwoPics/blueGrayLace.jpg
2. cut lengthwise (in half, quarters, eights, etc.) --then possibly be recombined with themselves or other canes
....Dayle's wrapped cane cut in halves and recombined, adding white in center
http://www.societyforcalligraphy.com/workshops/doroshow/pages/P1010041_JPG.htm
....Kathy G's Skinner blend bullseye (which could be simple wrapped canes) and spiral canes cut in quarters and recombined with other canes
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=4153008&a=31685739&p=71285899
.....(see more on these below in Later Manipulations > Lengthwise Cuts)
.....Lisa cut 4 wedges of a Skinner blend bulllseye cane to make a striped "weave" cane for basketweare configurations
http://www.polkadotcreations.com/books/article.php?id=pdclrc01
...or, cut lengthwise into long fat strips (for strip of "stripes"), or lengthwise with a wavy blade (for patterned strips or whole cane)
3. flattened or reshaped into bars, triangles, teardrops, thin sheets, wraps, etc.!
--Cynthia Toops' lesson on flattened, stacked canes (she shapes or cuts wrapped canes to form other wrapped shapes.... and her
"faux" stripes, made by stacking flattened bullseye canes on top of each other, then rolling them so the "stripes" are stretched lengthwise
http://www.nwpcg.org/photopages/dec99.shtml
--Leigh makes a leaf shaped cane from a round one
http://polymerclaycentral.com/poleigh/accent_leaf.html
(e.g., nightshade's Balinese Filigree made with flattened Skinner Blend canes (see Blends > Other) (website gone)
...........see also Kerstin's sort-of yin-yang shapes made from a two lengths of Skinner B blend log, reshaped to nestle together
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4291864965&p=4257612683&idx=7 (click on blue tin01)
4. indented (see above in Indenting)
5. many tiny canes can used as background elements in canes, or in areas where a visual texture is desired
.......Kellie's b&w hearts where tiny canes have have been used in a cane, then cane is cut and recombined (see Kaleidoscope and Symmetry)
http://www.kelliesklay.com/Pins.html
.........(uniquebead's use of wrapped chopped logs as "mosaic" elements, to surround images of birds, flowers, etc.)
http://www.beadunique.com/catalogue/Jewelry.htm
6. many bullseye canes of different sizes and colors (though using the same color for all wraps) can be put together to form multiple-bullseye canes, which can then be cut and/or recombined to make new canes (or slices can create sheets)
..... or various colors can be placed behind each other in a clay gun to extrude automatically wrapped canes which change color and size of wrap within the cane (see Clay Guns > Uses for dots slices)
7. many tiny bullseye canes can be wrapped up in a long stack of sheets, like a jellyroll, then manipulated or not (see Butterfly below)

Columbia Gorge guild's 3-D-ish wraps (black, gray, white)
http://www.cgpcg.org/ClayAThon2001/WorkCollage.jpg
Val's "ball," covered with two, random, yellow-wrapped logs
http://www.tlcnet.com/~polyclay/mg_val.jpg
Kerstin's multi-wrapped Skinner logs, shaped in triangles ... and also Keith B's various canes
http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/chall_jun04.html
Melnik's multi-wrapped logs (and spiral canes), slices placed closely onto background to make a pattern sheet (she calls "version of mok.gane")
http://melnik.freeservers.com/mg.html
Nora Jean's multiple wraps (black,beige?/transluc,orange black); 4 flattened together and wrapped again, then shaped for wings, etc.
http://www.norajean.addr.com/Bug-Petal-Grp.htm
Joanie's multiple wraps around a stack of stripes, creating a rectangular cane
http://www.pbase.com/joanie/caning
various color bullseye canes (Sk.blends), each wrapped in black put together, made into a sheet of diagonal "bricks", then a shape cut out from sheet
http://www.mhpcg.org/clayDays/claydays02/jan2002/janClyDy02/pages/inspire08_jpg.htm
Monica's dominoes, made with square slices from various different bullseye canes (multiple wraps) with black backgrounds, which are joined together by twos to make individual dominoes
http://www.geocities.com/pastasint/ita/giochi/pag1.html
Tonja's beads with various wrapped and multiple wrapped polkadots
http://www.tonjastreasures.com/jewelry2/tn29.htm
Candy's multiple wraps around flower center (website gone)
*Jainnie's black wrapped with translucent bullseye slices over background clay sheet, & "spotty" beads (Little Bear)
http://hobbystage.net/art/jainnie/1016598947-001459.html (inaccessible?) http://hobbystage.net/art/jainnie/beads.html
Heather P's elegant & neutral-colored tube beads, most with fancy wrapped cane slices in diff. sizes
http://www.humblebeads.com/tip6.html
Cindy P's wrapped canes with indention?... joined as for lacey cane
http://www.cindysartandsoul.com/images/canes/99.jpg
Kg's caned bowl
http://sites.netscape.net/kgsh2/bowl2.html (click on bottom photos to see detail) (gone?)
http://sites.netscape.net/kgsh2/kgclay.html
Alan V's beautiful stained glass bowl using alcohol-in-tinted bleached translucent clay, surrounded with silver-black wraps (with stained glass butterfly canes also)
http://groups.msn.com/ALANpolymer/polymerclaycanework.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=94
Bunny's lesson on a "stained glass" cane ...uses 6 triangular repetitions of a pyramid of bullseye canes (each wrapped in black)
http://www.thewildbunny.com/Stainedglass.htm
Sharon's lizard skin using wrapped canes (notice striped effect made by using two different colors of wrapped canes)
http://www.geocities.com/turkeymama/UPCG/caneexamples.htm?
Lindly's sheets with slices of multi-wrapped Skinner blend bullseye canes
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=4153008&a=31266991&p=68349444&f=0
Donna W's tiny wrapped canes, in-between various layers of clay, rolled and tapered to form a realistic 3-D rainbow trout with added fins (based on Angie Scarr lesson)
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=985985&uid=448958
Trina's lesson on making a dragonfly with spirals and bullseye cane components (website gone)
Karen's (caned) Indian corn, using Skinner Blend logs, and sculpted leaves
http://www.claycat.faithweb.com/cgi-bin/i/co01.jpg

see below in Ikat and Kaleidoscope for Mia's "Monet cane" and it's variations using 6 colors wrapped with the same color & arranged as for Trip Around the World quilt square

Eileen L. used wrapped cane(s) to make hot air balloons (onlays)... for details and link to photo, see below in "Misc. Canes"

"eye" beads (concentric colors)... made from slices of wrapped beads... or could be made by placing progressively smaller disks of contrasting color on top of each other (not caning...stacked disks, graduated in size)
http://www.nfobase.com/html/eye_bead_necklace.htm (gone) (click on photo for enlargement)

automatically "wrapped" bullseye-type canes can be created by using a clay gun with more than one colorclay inside it
...... the color closest to the front (disk end) will wrap itself around the color behind it... clays can be two colors, or many colors
...after loading the "wrap" color, add one (or many) more colors behind it (jumbled or marbled) together), or you can stack discs of color together in any sequence before inserting
....round, square, or any shape discs can be used to make various shapes of wrapped logs
... the automatically wrapped logs (or slices from them) can be used in various ways
.......slices from these wrapped logs can be placed together like a mosaic
...........Carl J's mulit-colo red wrapped canes (squared cane) .... slices on Altoid tin top... and also on pendants (with gold?... more subtle)... these are similar to "faux mosaic" canes below)
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=4153008&a=31266991&p=68339803
...... whole wrapped logs (or slices) can be put together in a grid (randomly or in patterns) .... see much more on these "dot slice" canes in Clay Guns > Uses
.....braid 5 of these wrapped logs (as Nan Roche did), then after baking, sand off the top areas of the braid back to reveal the colors "inside" the logs
......see more on these in Clay Guns > Uses > Automatically-wrapped... (and also see Multi-Wrapped Bullseye canes above for inspiration)

(see other ideas above in Spiral canes... and above in Indenting or Inserting)

"Lacey" canes

"Lace" or "lacey" canes are multiple lengths cut from a long bullseye cane, then re-combined into one cane
..they can be made in any colors (usually 2)
.....if translucent clay is used for the center log, and white, off-white or Pearl are used for the wrap sheet, the result after cutting and recombining will simulate real "lace" (with lots of "holes" in it)
.....other colors used for this cane usually won't look like real (Victorian-type) lace... there will simply be a colored and usually opaque "lacey effect" from the many small holes or honeycombing created

(faux real-lace)
my lace canes on a BOH... used for stopper + background under pink cane slice flowers
http://www.glassattic.com/imagesCANES_COV/cov-BOH/BOH.htm (on left, next to b/w check)
raw clay lace cane (hard to see pattern till baked tho'... click on 3rd photo)
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/cr_jewelry/article/0,2025,DIY_13762_2892549,00.html
(other patterns of "lace" made with transcluent and white clays
http://www.polyclay.com/home.htm ... last switchplate)
translucent logs have been tinted pink here (but for "colored lace," try tinting the wrap clay instead)
http://tutorials.theclaystore.com/polymer-clay-canes/translucent-pink-lace-cane
(see more possibilities for faux lace below in Translucent+Opaque Canes)

Shelley's lace cane lesson (base of 4 canes)
http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/lacecane_shelly.html
*Desiree's bullseye lace cane lesson (base of 6+1)... plus how to cover with slices, make a hole, necklace, e tc.
http://www.desiredcreations.com/howTo_CABullseyeLaceCane.htm
sincereleigh's lace cane lesson (base of 5+1 canes)
http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/lacecane.html
Modelene polymer clay's lesson on making lace cane (5 or 6), and some variations (including mirror image)
http://www.modelene.com.au/lacecane.shtml and http://www.modelene.com.au/magiccane.shtml

When making regular "lace" canes, the cane can be cut into any number of lengths before recombining and repeating the process.
Shelly M's lesson: http://polymerclaycentral.com/lacecane_shelly.html
Using a different number of lengths will result in a slightly different pattern (if reduced without too much distortion later).
If you use different colors for the different components rather than lengths of the same cane, you can get interesting designs!
http://www.kelliesklay.homestead.com/barrettes.html (pink and greenish, near bottom)
And you can also vary the way the components are combined (surrounding a center log, or lined up side by side, formed into triangles, e.g.)
You can also get interesting secondary patterns when you combine these
http://www.kelliesklay.homestead.com/barrettes.html (green and brown, near bottom)
http://www.3wave.com/chhome/cha/mandala2.htm (Byrd's triangular canes made from Skinner Blend logs)

However, I once made a Nan Roche "lace cane" with black Fimo wrapped in gold Promat. A few months later I sliced up the cane and applied the slices to a bracelet. As I pressed the cane slices into the base clay of the bracelet they split along the gold lines into little pieces making them look like some kind of mysterious natural material. This bracelet is still my favorite.

All (I used) is a (bunch of different colored) lace (logs to create my cane).. But the difference is I used tiny skinner logs for it!! :-) Mia

("crackle effect" cane) ... Just made a white log, and wrapped it with gold. Streched it out, cut it into 6 or 8 equal pieces and put it all together . Lengthened it, cut it in 4 pieces, and recombined again. Basic lace cane. But then while I still have a short fat log, standing on its end, I sliced down into 4 pieces, not equal. Then I put it back together, putting what had been the outside edge, into the center, but tring not to let the solid gold edges meet. Then I covered the outside with another layer of gold and reduced it to the size I needed. Almost like Elissa's mosaic cane (which she describes here: http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/chat_elissapowell.html, but in two colors only). Lisa

???Peace Symbol cane . . . Just make a bullseye cane... Cut it in three even sections... Put them together, you'll make a pyramid of bullseyes (two on the bottom... one on top?) Then just roll them into a single round cane... perfect peace sign every time! (??) Joani

Multiple-Bullseye canes, with manipulations

Window Pane cane(Pier Voulkos' for beads on cover of Jewelry Crafts) . . . She used silver foil and a Skinner blend of translucent clays and built a window pane cane. She emphasized that you need to reduce the cane and break the foil or cane will be weak and fall apart (breaking the foil helps the cane stick together). Then thin slices of this cane is applied to an armature of aluminum foil. . . . ljmint

Elissa's lesson on cutting and rearranging a mosaic cane, then using it to cover hearts
http://www.pcpolyzine.com/may2001/mosaic.html

*uniquebead's use of wrapped chopped logs, as "mosaic" elements to surround images of birds, flowers, etc.; note the variation in overall color of chopped logs for shading effects
http://www.beadunique.com/catalogue/Jewelry.htm
http://www.beadunique.com/catalogue/catalogue%20mosaic%20brooch.htm (click on each photo, then hover on enlarged photo till 4-sided arrow comes up and click on that for largest view)

"Mosaic" canes

(for making mosaics with individual flat tiles, go to Mosaics)

Faux mosaic patterns can be created with canes, rather than with small tiles laid onto a base by:
... making wrapped canes where the center logs are different colors (and poss. shades/tints/mixes of those colors), but each log color has a clay wrap of the same color as you want for the faux "grout"
........ the faux grouting wraps are often black, white, grey, but could be any color you want .. but very thin
....the wrapped-log canes are often made into square canes to resemble square tiles, but can be any shape
........or they can be left round, then re-shaped as needed for a particular area
... reduce all canes (to 1/4" or smaller probably, but depending on what you want to do)
... these wrapped canes are then combined into a desired final pattern (...usually pictorials)
.......or they are created as sub-units, then cut and recombined into various final patterns (...usually geometrics)
(slices from the final cane will resemble a tile mosaic, or stained glass, or just something new) DB

Ttry to make the canes small in the first place or you'll end up with way too much! (because many of the canes will be used only a certain number of times in the final cane (except perhaps for any "background" tiles)

City Zen Cane was the first to introduce this technique, as far as I know... they were all geometrics, I believe
. .. there are several good examples of their mosaics in the book Creating with Polymer Clay by Steven Ford and Leslie Dierks (one on page 14 in particular, but lots more too)
DB: add Grace's mosaic slices from class

Ann S's huge faux mosaic cane before reducing... pictorial (...plus polymer mosaics from tiles on the side)
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=4153008&a=31266991&p=68339441
Xtine's many examples of caned mosaic patterns on vase
http://creaplastic.free.fr/14_02.htm
Kim Korringa's many mosaic canes combined together, then used in sections, or used as sheets from which shapes are cut (cats, people, etc.)
... she often makes a patchwork of diff. mosaic canes for the sheet
http://kimcreates.com/pins.htm (mermaid, man, woman, dog, cat)
Alan V's bowl made with various cane units of bullseye canes (many translucent for "stained glass")
http://groups.msn.com/ALANpolymer/polymerclaycanework.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=94
Cynthia Toops' monochromatic mosaic sheet, used for covering tapered base beads for a necklace
http://www.npcg.org/Activities/muse/images/toops/Original%20Files/TOOPS5.JPG (gone)
Melnik's blue, purple and aqua examples of "mosaic" caning (website gone)
Janet Ferris' mosaics on masks http://userzweb.lightspeed.net/jrfarris/gallery.html (gone)
Cindy's mosaic (wrapped, square) cane components
http://home.earthlink.net/~claycrazy/beads1.html (gone...? or new website)

I made a nice letter cane using the mosaic "pixels" method taught by CityZen Cane…turned out nice!
....tip: wrap the letter itself with a sheet of background color before adding mthe rest of the background color, to avoid "chinks" in letter's edge

Skinner blend canes ...mosaic canes can also be created (in at least two ways) with Skinner blends (or discret blends)
1. (quickie way)...make a Skinner blend "plug" of whatever colors you want
......wrap the plug with your a sheet of your grout color .... reduce cane
.....cut cane into short lengths... in each length, the inside color will be approx. the same (or it may become slightly different from one end to the other), but the grout color on the outside will be the same for all lengths
2. I started with 6 Skinnd bullseye canes (one for every color of the rainbow)
....... then I made them square.... and wrapped a layer of whatever color clay to the coordinating cane to add more color (a darker shade of the same color??)
(I would have added a layer of white but didn't know i wanted white until I had everything reduced!!)
.... reduced each color cane, until I could divide each into 6- 2" lengths
.....then assembled them into any pattern I'd drawn out beforehand. (....any pattern would work!!) Mia

These wrapped-log mosaic canes could also be used for quilt block patterns (like Trip Around the World, etc or even Log Cabin)
....(see Quilt canes below , and also Quilts)

uniquebead's use of chopped colors logs (wrapped with the same color) for "mosaic" elements to surround images of birds, flowers, etc
..... note the variation in overall color of chopped logs for shading effects
http://www.beadunique.com/catalogue/Jewelry.htm
http://www.beadunique.com/catalogue/catalogue%20mosaic%20brooch.htm (click on each photo, then hover on enlarged photo till 4-sided arrow comes up and click on that for largest view)

OTHER WAYS to make mosaics with canes
..."Extruded Mosaic" technique by Nan Roche ...extrusions from a clay gun can create automatically "wrapped" log canes (which can also vary in color if you wish) ..... this results in round or square canes which have been automatically wrapped with a 2nd ("grout" color) as a bullseye cane but with a narrow wrap, and which can be sliced and placed together like a mosaic (see Clay Guns > Uses > Automatically Wrapped... and also multi-wrapped bullseye canes above, for more details)
...for Elissa's "mosaic cane" and other manipulations of multi-bullseye canes which may have been fractured and reassembled, see above in "Multiple Bullseye canes"
..another caned mosaic technique?? . . . Donna Kato has a great mosaic technique that she uses.  It was featured in one of the issues of Michael's Magazine.  She used it on an egg and it was just beautiful.  Much easier than other techniques I've tried. Dotty in CA
... the intricate mosaic designs of Pier Voulkos?? ....use noodle attachment of pasta machine?

You can also create your own pixelated images with some photoeditors (to use for mosaic patterns)
(or use cross-stitch/needlepoint or other already-pixelated patterns)
...lay your image (or even a sculpted piece) on the scanner ...save image as a .jpg or whatever
.......in your photoeditor, choose special effects like "tile" or "mosaic" which change the image to colored squares---looks like cross stitch pattens, or stacked square logs of clay forming a cane! Sarajane
..I actually have cross-stitch software that I use regularly, and am extremely pleased with. Debbie

Feathers & "Butterfly Wing"

(see below in Stacks > Feathers for feather canes)
(...see also Sculpting-Body > Wings )

Desiree's "Butterfly Wing" bead (lesson on how the cane is made --bullseye canes, rolled up on Skinner blend sheet)
http://desiredcreations.com/howTo_CAButterflyBead.htm
http://www.desiredcreations.com/images/galleryTwoPics/quillP endant.jpg (pendant covered with scraps from b.canes)

(looking at cut rocks -- agates, etc-- can be very inspirational for seeing natural layers of many variations)

SPIRAL, Jellyroll (add my handout)

These can be used in many ways --alone, or in combination with other simple or complex cane components
(and they can also be used in other ways aside from caning)
...Just as with the wrapped and striped canes, the effects created with apped canes can be very sophisticated, or they can be quite simple
........this will depend on color variation, placement & orientation, size, proportion, complexity, etc

BASIC LESSON ... single spiral:
... flatten 2 (or many more) colors into rectangle sheets (or thin pads) of the same size.... and stack them, trying to avoid bubbles between layers... trim to the same size
........or, cut a finished rectangle from the first sheet (which will show up as the spiral)... then roll it down onto a second sheet ...trim bottom sheet to same size
...thin one short end of the layers a bit (make bottom sheet a little longer than top sheet if you want the spiral completely surrounded by background)
...beginning at the thinned end, roll layers up toward other short end.... reduce as much as desired
NOTE:
...the longer the rectangle of layers, the more revolutions the spiral will have, and the thinner the lines will appear
...whichever color of the layers is on the bottom side when the strip is rolled up, will appear to be the background color (even though it's a spiral too)

Kris' lesson on making a spiral cane (with two layers)
http://www.sculpey.com/Projects/projects_PolyDollys.htm
for a two-color spiral, Donna Kato uses two thick sheets of clay atop each other, then thins the 2 layers with the pasta machine
......she also folds the layered sheet over once before rolling up the spiral from the fold end (not sure how this changes it, except that the innermost point of the spiral is then rounded... just makes rolling up easier?)

maribel's lesson (more complex) on making a multi-colored spiral cane with a multi-color Skinner blend sheet rolled up with a white sheet (more in Blends > Skinner)
http://polymermania.blogspot.com/2007/05/hora-de-actualizar.html

LESSON: more than one spiral:
....multiple spirals can be made in one strip of layered colors (rather than just rolling the strip all the way up, into one spiral)
SOME EXAMPLES (these will usually require fairly long strips):
...lay a strip of colors down... then roll the strip up from one end, but only to the center... stop
......then roll up the other end till the 2nd spiral meets the1st spiral (or do both ends kind of at the same time to keep the spiral sizes the same)
........if both ends are rolled from the same side, the resulting cane will be a "scroll" shape
........if one end is rolled from the top side, and one from the bottom side, the spirals will form an S shape
...a long strip can be rolled up right in the middle of the strip too (just pinch up an area in the middle of the strip, and roll it toward one end --both layers of the area will be picked up in the spiral)
........if this is done at several intervals, it can a quite interesting long pattern
...add other logs or canes inside the spirals, or before changing directions... or fold the strips in various ways between the spirals

ways to use spiral canes

spiral canes (with one or more spirals) cane be used as elements of other canes
....they can be used as "filler" in a complex cane (around, or framing, the main cane elements)
....spiral canes (same color of different) can be combined together like a lace cane (see Lacey Canes above)
....four spiral canes can be placed around a center log of color, or around a different cane
............then all can be formed into a new complex cane (that's square, round, triangular, etc).
.......changing the relative size of the spiral canes to the center cane will change the look
.......Felicia surround a large Skinner blend bullseye cane with 4 spiral canes of a complementary color for extra pop (purple SB center, with light-yellow and black spirals)

whole spiral canes can be squished into other shapes before combining with other logs or canes
......(e.g., into triangles, squares, paisleys, even long very flat strips... or any shape)
...or they can be rolled flat, and or rolled up or folded, etc., before combining with other logs or canes

press two spiral canes next to each other, flattening them a bit
...... then cut lengthwise into several long slices with a wavy blade (from top if vertical canes)
...this example is cut with a mini ripple blade http://sculpey.com/sculpey102.htm (purple & turquoise)
(for more, see Cutters > Blades> Wavy )

cut a spiral cane in half or in quarters (or eights, etc.). lengthwise
.......rotate the sections ... then recombine them into a square or octagonal/round cane
.. Anna's lesson on making a "spliced" cane with a spiral cane... she cuts the spiral in 8ths, somewhat unevenly... she then recombines them 4 up and 4 down (alternated), creating a chevron or zigzag pattern... reduces, then reshapes and recombines in various ways
http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/cyclopedia/jelly_spliced.html
(more on splice technique below in Later Manipulations > Cutting Lengthwise)
...or cut lengthwise into long fat slices (for a strip of stripes), or cut lengthwise with a wavy blade (for patterned strip)

NoraJean's fish scales... using a lt green to gold Skinner blend sheet , wrapped around a center log of gold, yielding a spiral cane
.... the cane is then cut lengthwise into 4 wedges, which are nestled-stacked together (in the same orientation) in a clamshell pattern, creating a 1-2-1 pattern of wedges (top to bottom)
(this new cane can be cut into lengths and combined, repeatedly, for as large a pattern as needed)
http://www.norajean.com/Biz-Archive/Faux/FishScale/fs-017.htm

Kathy G's thin spiral and Sk.blend bullseye canes cut in quarters ...then recombined with other canes
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=4153008&a=31685739&p=71285899

whole spiral canes can beplaced next to each other to form another entire shape (see LindaWTX's xmas tree) (website gone)

separate, (very thin) stacks of layers can be manipulated individually before being stacked together for rolling up .. e.g., have indentions, or insertions, --additions, etc.

any sheets or pieces can be rolled into a spiral (and used as is, or slices cut off & used)
......Mia's lesson on rolling a number of flattened, Skinner blend canes (each wrapped in black & placed next to each other) into a spiral
........ http://www.pcpolyzine.com/0203march/swirly.html
......Dotty's lesson on rolling and slicing spirals of translucent and other colors
........ http://www.pcpolyzine.com/april2001/keyring.html

spiral canes pressed into square canes
... maribel then uses various canes (or lengths from same cane) use to make a complex cane of squared spirals in a grid
http://www.abalorios.net/aba/om/fimo/conjuntomov.htm

complex spiral canes can also be created by tapering thick lengths of other canes at one end (striped, lacey, etc.) or random patterns in canes (marbling, etc.).... then placing tapered ends together and "rolling" up a bit... wide ends can be fanned out and pressed to fill in the whole eventual cane area.

-completed spiral canes can be indented from the outer edge, either straight toward the center or at any angle (see below in Flower Canes for canes indented radially multiple times). . . they can also be indented with a curved line if using a thin stiff needle

--other things inserted into the cane before spiraling
......Nora Jean's lesson on inserting a crosswise color into a tapered log comprised of a Skinner Blend rolled up into a log with the dark on the outside (then the log is squared), before rolling up into a snail ... which is flattened and stretched to make a cane (in several variations ...an ammonite... using Nora Jean's bamboo cane)
http://www.norajean.com/Biz-Archive/Faux/Ammonite/Fourth-effort.htm
Pinchy's lesson on making a spiral shell cane by inserting short crosswise strips along a Skinner plug
http://www.geocities.com/pinchyspolymerplace/shellcane.htm

--other things can be rolled up inside the spiral (...lay colored ropes, or anything, on rectangle sheet before rolling it up)
........Pier's use of diff. canes laid side by side as one long sheet... flattened... tapered at one end... rolled into a spiral
...........Jean H's similar example http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/jeanhornberger2.html ....(on lg. red bead...click on Detail)
......Cindy P's spiral using a long, flattened (rolled-up) Skinner sheet, with a plain black sheet (see nightshade's tecnique in Blends >Other Techniques)
....... http://www.picturetrail.com /gallery/view?p=999&gid=549045&uid=454469 (gone)
......Simply Darling's lesson on Donna Kato's "stained glass" cane, which uses slices from a stack of sheets to roll inside a thin layer of black... also quartered and reversed around a smaller version
http://www.simplydarling.com/SDCPages/SDCTutor/StainedGlass/stainedglass.htm
....... Monica's rose created by laying Skinnered or wrapped half-logs onto a base strip --flat sides down-- then rolling the strip up spiral style (so that the ends of the half-logs show)
http://dadacasa.supereva.it/lara/corsi/rosa-e.htm?p (may take a while to load?)
.......Desiree's Butterfly Wing bead lesson --bullseye canes rolled up on Skinner blend sheet)
http://desiredcreations.com/howTo_CAButterflyBead.htm
http://www.desiredcreations.com/images/galleryTwoPics/quillPendant.jpg (pendant covered with scraps from b.canes)
.............I printed your directions (for the Butterfly Wing bead) and made a cane and then a bead. Mine doesn't look like yours. Mine looks more like chevron stripes. If I slice the cane instead of cutting a football shape, I get a leopard design. It also makes interesting Natasha beads. Genevieve C
~(for Desiree's black & white lentil bead made from butterfly wing cane scraps, see her Pendants page)

two layered stacks can be spiraled around each other, yin-yang-like (Elissa's tsunami cane lesson, using Skinner blend stacks)
http://pcpolyzine.com/march2001/tsunami.html
James L's various uses of spiral canes and interesting use of tails and configurations
and his spiral of stripes, etc., spiral with chopped clay as second sheet ("background")
http://www.akrobiz.com/polymer_clay/p_0a_01.html (4 striped layers wound around each other from center...tails travel to other areas)
http://www.akrobiz.com/polymer_clay/p_0a_02.html (3 spiral canes partly rolled up seem to be placed together, with tails oriented in same direction, then all tails wrapped around all 3?)
http://www.akrobiz.com/polymer_clay/g_03.html (with thick translucent layer)
Shellie Brooks, interesting spirals in collage sheet
http://www.designsgallerycollection.com/brooks.html (gone)

Susan B's lesson on making a sheet of "fabric" from laying many spiral cane slices on a base sheet, then flattening ... used as clothing for a tiny wire figure
http://www.sculpey.com/Projects/projects_wiredwomen.htm

Melnik's "faux" BF?? . . . if not, could be . . .using slices of spiral canes instead of actual spiraled of ropes of clay ...
http://www.tlcnet.com/~polyclay/rockgallery1.html
Kathy W's "faux Balinese Filigree" patterns on orange & black egg, made with flattened slices of spiral canes in BF patterns (some are doubled-ended spirals)
http://people.delphiforums.com/kkephart/eggs.htm

Donna Kato's lesson on making a spiral from an "ikat stack"
http://www.homeandgardentelevision.com/hgtv/cr_accessories_jewelry/article/0,1789,HGTV_3225_4357295,00.html
(beginning with the Skinner blend step at #4 --but only through pasta machine 4 times so not completely blended

Donna's lesson on making a rose & turquoise spiral in a kind of similar way
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/crafting/article/0,,HGTV_3352_1399750,00.html --but Figures H + I, "To Make Spiral")
Tonja's spirals
http://www.tonjastreasures.com/vessels/tn15.htm

Donna Kato's lesson on "maze canes"
....she laid thick slices from Skinner Blend plugs (some lengthened) and SB canes onto a SB sheet, flattened them
... and laid them on a thin sheet of (white) clay ...then rolled both layers into a spiral ..and shaped it into a large triangle
...this was cut into 6 lengths... and combined radially ....(she also combined and cut the resulting pattern for pendants)
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_clay_jewelry/article/0,,HGTV_3238_1390488,00.html (middle of page)

Jeanne R's lesson on making faux water or a waterfall with spiral or folded canes, be ow in "Landscape" canes

Desiree's Sparkling Moss Agate bead (lesson--translucent sheet covered with black clay speckles and areas of Sparkling Copper Pearl-Ex powder (larger flakes) ...all rolled into spiral cane(before making football cut)
http://home.earthlink.net/~dddmcc/howTo_MossAgateBead.htm

I did a accidental variation (of texture sheet mokume gane) .... I had made some skinner blend jelly rolls wrapped in black (short, fat?).... I flattened into a strip to make a jellyroll cane i found on pc polyzine (which turned out very cool). So last night I, on a whim, ran one through with a texture sheet and then sliced off the tops. It was really cool. So I made a whole new cane and repeated. rosey63 (see more in Mokume Gane > Clay > Squashed Canes)

silastones created faux "bullseye cane" slices by shaving small disks of clay from of the outer surface of a multi-revolution spiral cane
http://polymerclaybeads.blogspot.com/2006/12/mogume-gane-step7.html

Sunni's spiral cane made without a pasta machine
http://sunnisan.com/crafts/jellyroll.html

(see other ideas below in Bullseye canes and above in Indenting or Inserting)

Julie's simple multiple-spiral covered beads (website gone)

Tamila's spiraled stripes cane (based on Donna Kato's "inside-out stained glass" cane/lesson (website gone)
Emma's mummy beads made with stripe cane, simulating a "diagonal weave"? each stripe is laid perpendicular to the last with its end overlapping the previous stripe's end like herringbone?). . . "the Mummy Beads of mine shown on Elissa's site are made from marbled clays, but other than that made exactly the same way (as the ones I have instructions for in Jewelry Crafts) . Emma " (website gone)
Annie's thinly striped spiral made from many rolls, or long, thin stack http://hobbystage. (gone)
Elissa's very thin spiraled Skinner blend slices on heart with two wraps (website gone)
Lisa's small (in threes) and large spirals http://communities.msn.com/Lisafamilyncrafts/shoebox (gone)
Annie's Skinnered rainbow spirals (blend placed on black sheet and rolled up) http://hobbystage. (gone)
Trina's lesson on making a dragonfly with spirals and bullseye cane components (website gone)

FOLDED

Arlene Thayer's folded cane lesson (for a kaleiscope cane ...radiating segments)
http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/pcc/foldcane.html
Kellie AK's examples (covered Altoid tins)
http://www.kelliesklay.homestead.com/Tins.html
Kg's beautiful draped bowls, made with folded canes (some monochromatic)
http://sites.netscape.net/kgsh2/bowl2.html (gone?) (click on blue bowls for more detail)
nightshade's eye-popping folded cane, and other folded canes (website gone)
Ann’s folded and agate-pattern canes (website gone)
Darlene's folded?, then kaleidoscoped (x4) component (tie-dyed beads)
http://modernclay.homestead.com/polymerclaybeads.html

Lengths of two or more layers of clay can be folded (accordion-folded, pleated, or whatever) in various ways to create a cane (or individual bead, or background, etc.).
....Various things can also be added between the layers of the sheets, or between the layers of the completed wheet while folding
......for esample, plain-colored logs or wrapped (or automatically wrapped bullseye canes, Dkinner Blend bullseyes or flattened plugs, canes of any kind , sheets of various colors or with inclusions, etc.

When slices are taken from a cane made this way, lots of complexity can result
....the cane can also be cut and recombined with itself, or with combined with other canes as well).

accordion-folded strip of layers with added logs (lesson):
--Stack 2-5 or more colored (long-ish) rectangular clay sheets (the outer 2 colors of the stack will end up next to each other).
--Pasta machine or roll/pull into a really lo-ong, thin strip.
--Accordion-fold the strip, placing logs, canes, other long shapes or sheets in-between the folds
. . .or just fold it up any way you like (in a pattern or randomly).
--Shape into a square or triangular cane (or whatever), and use slices to cover items. . . or cut the cane and combine at least once before slicing.
...... (if done with a really thinned layer stack, this can resemble a fine basketweave or a butterfly wing, etc.);

(see condensed verison of many of the following suggestions in Explorations > for April 2003)

areas of folded or bent strips could be indented:
...to receive logs (like Pier's "gear" cane below) or to receive sheets or any shapes or small canes
...to create inward marks ...swirling lines or other shapes ("drawing" a short distance with a needle tool, e.g. as for an oak leaf or other leaves-items which have interior lines...the outer layers would be pressed inward ...and will double in thickness)

areas could have a portion cut away from the outside edge, or cut out from the inside area (with a cutter, etc.) and be replaced with something else

areas could be removed or cut away from the outside edges, and the cut edges pressed back together

logs, sheets, other canes, leafing, etc, could be placed between the folds, either where they bend or somewhere along the length of contact
... could adapt a feather cane for one possibility

Grace Yen noticed that when a strip is accordion- folded, the color of one of the outer layers from the stack will predominate on one side of the slice, and the other outer color will predominate at the other side. . . . this could be used to advantage, or at least noticed if combining with itself.

If nothing is placed between the foldings, the interior layer color will be doubled up, since it falls next to itself . . . this will create a thicker line, so keep that in mind.

If two different canes are joined to form a larger triangle cane (or square/rectangle cane), then lengths are cut and combined with each other (radially or in a grid) in the proper orientation, the result will be a new all-over pattern in which the folded cane design would be surrounded by a plainer area (see Kaleidoscope canes below).

If the color layers end up very thin from putting through the pasta machine, etc., remember you'll need to use strong contrast in your colors or they won't show up... bright colors you wouldn't think of using in a regular cane look much more muted when reduced to this degree

OTHER ideas:

brain cane ...folds are made so they resemble the folds of a brain
....Kathy G's lesson on making a brain cane from a long strip of multiple-color Skinner blend on a black strip and white strip & various brain cane slices
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4153008&a=31597442&f=0
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4153008&a=31586292&f=0
....Carl Johengen's sort-of lesson on beautiful very-brainy cane... he makes a multiple Skinner Blend with metallic clays ... pasta machines (across the colors) into very long strip...then creates a long thin strip of white, sandwiched by 2 blacks... then he layers the two strips together (adding other strip blends or a second multiple blend on the other side of b&w?) ..... folds the strip many, many times (in every direction possible)... then forms into a long cane for slicing
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=4153008&a=31266991&p=68339551 (begins with this photo... keep clicking NEXT)
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=4153008&a=31266991&p=68339801 (final shot --many slices of cane)
(a similar effect can be created with metallic leaf,in a mokume gane stack.....see Mokume Gane > Other Manipulations > Folded Brain )

..use the long flattened strip of color layers to outline an object, figure, or abstract area of pattern (molas sometimes do this). . . or try to make letters (either prined or cursive)
...use folded-bent strips to fill in areas (could be stripes, accordion folds, brain folds, etc.)
...pinch the folds, creating points, rather than letting the bends be rounded
...simulate paisley or leaves, etc.
... translucent and opaque clay together in one cane... the slices will appear to float over other clay (see below in "Translucent Canes")
...crossover ideas from Faux Ivory or Faux Wood?

Valerie H's lesson on accordion-folding a long Skinner blend over only the top (and down both sides) of a solid-color log to make a "petal" cane (where the top part is a gradient)
http://www.tokensbeads.com/how_to_make_a_shaded_petal_plug.htm

--landscapes (caned, puzzle piece, onlay, etc.)
--take part of picture or illustration you like the colors of, select a wedge of it, and do a kaleidoscope cane
--snowflakes a la Sarajane (in Celebrations book)
--ghost image surface with mica clay (stamps, textures, pearl or metallics, layers… check file)
--games
--mokume gane: using clay gun extrusions or taller 3-D shapes, to build a pattern or picture underneath or within the stack?
....... for example, using ropes or letter cutters to create lettering; or scenes (mountains/moon/e.g.); or graphic patterns such as rows of separated squares, concentric circles, different shapes/stripes (like African quilts)?
......it would also be fun to combine that technique with some of the other mokume techniques like leafing/powders/paints or with mica or other inclusion clays, marbled clays, standing-on-edge folded stripes as for folded canes, etc..
...the most lovely bead!...I had a bunch of mokume gane pieces left over....smooshed" pieces together accidentally I had my pasta machine on setting #7 (thinnest)....I just sort of crumpled up ... folded (gently this time) a small piece and VOILA ... Ann P.

mica and translucent cane alone ....(I started with an egg covered in just plain black)... then I made a folded cane:
--I rolled a layer of translucent at the thickest setting - #1 on the Atlas.
--Then rolled the (Premo) gold at about a #5, just thick enough to be easy to handle.
--I smooshed or smeared the cane slices slightly as I pressed them on
(when mica clay is that thin, there is little space between the mica layers... creates variances in the gold lines, resulting in a real feeling of depth...
--bake, sand, buff --very elegant.. . . Sally (website gone)

also see NOW AT? .... http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumList?u=4153008hyweinberg/ (Natasha, monochromatic, swirly)
http://solo.abac.com/streamrdr/tiles/a.html (esp. the light and dark brown U-shapes)
http://solo.abac.com/streamrdr/tiles/hh.html (various)

rows of many stripes could be by accordion-folding a long strip of layers, then cutting off the looped ends (leaving just the central stripe area)
...see above in Stripes and Stacks for many other possibilities . . .

many mola designs are inspirational for folded canes, spirals, stripes, outlines ! (see Onlay for a diff. way to do molas):
http://park.org/SanBlasDeCuna/molas.html

folding to simulate water or a waterfall . .. Jeanne R's lesson:
... rounded-corner, accordion-folded cane (lt.blue, dk blue, white, dk.blue, med.blue); one has a bit of spiral at the end
... oval jellyroll cane
..."breaking waves" type fold (similar to the waves of Hokusai)
.... I make weird shaped-folded canes, then often cut the cane not vertically, but diagonally and horizontally.... I run the slices through the pasta machine...(I can get the scalloped edge (on the folded ones?) that is sort of water falling.)..
... I think I remember using diluent to smear some of canes afterward to get a muted effect
...and then used interference blue powders after letting sit for a day. Jeanne R.
http://www.heartofclay.com/eb/water.jpg and http://www.heartofclay.com/eb/water2.jpg

Marie S's wave logs...twisted stacks of stripes of blues and greens + white... log tapered and curled up at one
http://www.clayfactory.net/marie/images/beads3.jpg

use a wavy blade to cut slices from the sides of any of these canes (should be compressed to loaf shape first); on an angle could look a bit different too

Monica's Christmas tree cane (lesson). . . made by accordion-folding a long Skinner Blend strip (lighter part to the bottom), then shaping into a triangle; she then added a layer of trunk, background, and ornaments on each end (background-wrapped colored logs) underneath the triangle; she cut the resulting cane into three lengths and reduced two of them to progressively smaller sizes, then stacked them; added another triangle of background clay to create a filled-in rectangular cane, and then a strip of white "snow" underneath
http://guide.supereva.com/hobby_femminili/interventi/2001/11/78349.shtml

someone also suggests using a heating pad (not to exceed 100 degrees F) to prewarm the clay stack or strip and make it more pliable, if it's thicker, to prevent cracking when folding

~Nine- Patch (Skinnered logs rolled out, accordion-folded, cut with wavy blade)...Karen's demo (of Marie Segal's?)... these "canes" are cut on their sides, not ends (website gone)
...In short, you take nine different color logs, stack them 3 x 3, roll them through the pasta machine, then fold them together, accordion-style, and start slicing away (with a ripple blade) to get a mokume gane-type look.
...Desiree McCrorey has a similar technique tho she braids her logs rather than stacking them, then wavy blade cuts in her article in the March 2001 issue of Polyzine http://pcpolyzine.com/march2001/altoid.html. Deirdre

NOT resulting in CANES:
Margaret R's squiggles of folded cane lengths used as onlay on back of a bowl
http://www.mregan.com/portfolios/portfolio3/photo1.htm
*Nora Jean's long strip of stripes, folded diagonally to form "rick rack" lesson, & photo of necklace covered with rick rack strip (for caned rick rack, see above in Stripes/Stacks)
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1751108&a=13488963&f=0
(website gone)
http://www.norajean.com/past%20months/june2001-001.htm (bottom of page for photo)
...rick rack is made with a long thin ribbon of (long) stripes, folded onto itself creating continguous, reversed triangles
....(my sort of lesson: draw or use a straight horizontal line to guide you; lay one strip end diagonally across the horizontal line (pointing nw); fold long tail diagonally to the right and up (ne); make next fold to the southeast; continue folding diagonally to the right (ne, se, etc.), making sure each triangle point from the previous triangle is exactly met by the next triangle)
...Nora Jean prepared her initial strip using a long skinner blend of gold to pearl rolled into a jelly roll and reduced. The cane end was sliced, pressed and backed with black. Then it was sliced and stacked. (The stacked loaf was sliced and the strip was pressed and laid down in a zigzag or rick rack way...) Nora Jean

Nora Jean's pleated strip of thin stripes from a cane (but could be as with dragged lines?), but each pleat is slightly offset from the previous one vertically also
http://www.norajean.addr.com/Faux/abalone/FoldClay/Group-thms.htm

Also, Nora Jean's lessons on pleating a Skinner Blend or any length of clay pattern, etc., then wrapping horizontally around vessel forms ... some pleats are left dimensional, and some are completely flattened? (see Vessels > Pleated, and Leaf Canes, below)

There are other ways to fold and wrap strips or other shapes of clay too for canes or for origami techniques?
... suppose it would be best to use Kato's Repel Gel (or another CA debonder on the clay, or possibly a heavy powdering of cornstarch on both sides of the sheet to prevent them from bonding during firing?... or just in particular areas?)... or could origami be done with liquid clay impregnated fabric?)
...see more on clay folding and "origami" in Sheets > Other Techniques > Origami, folding

STRIPED, stacked layers

Just as with the wrapped canes and spirals, the effects created with stripes can be very sophisticated or they can be quite simple
...this will depend on color variation, placement & orientation, shape, size, porportion, etc.
...they can also be pressed or otherwise formed into different shaped canes before combining with other canes or using elsewhere

basic lesson for a stack of stripes:
...lay (2 or more) same-thickness or different-thickness sheets of clay on top of each other (...roll each down onto the next layer to prevent bubbles between the layers which can show up later)
....it's a good idea to cut all 4 edges at this point so that all layers extend to all edges
........this stack can be used as is
........or, to get more layers of the same pattern, cut the stack in half crosswise, then lay the one half on top of the other half (...if you haven't previously trimmed the edges, put your best edges at the same end on top of each other) ....(or see just below for making a stack of very thin layers)
........continue cutting and stacking until you have the desired number of layers.... (or you can create more layers from the beginning)

What you'll have at this point is a block (or loaf or slab) of different layers
... this "stack" will show stripes from all 4 sides, but a solid color on the top and bottom surface.

There are many ways to treat stacks or layers of clay:
....Cut thick or thin slices off this slab (usually crosswise to the stripes) to incorporate into canes (using end of slice, showing strip of rectangles)
....... or to use in other ways
....If, however, you'll want all layers to be very thin in the end result, put each half-stack or newly combined layers through the pasta machine (or use a hand roller) before making the next cut
........ very thin layer stacks are useful for things like faux-ivory, mokume gane, folded canes, etc)
...Use as sheets of pattern ...shapes can be cut from stripe sheets with cutters or blades, or bits can be cut or shaved off and onlaid to other surfaces

SOME VARIABLES for STRIPE STACKS:
...stacks can be made with as few colors as you like, or many... and layers can also be gradations of color, tint, etc. (see Blends > Discrete)
...inconsistent thicknesses of layers, or varying thicknesses (if diff. thicknesses, they can be progressively thicker, etc.)
...the number of layers can be few or many .. a pasta machine can be used to thin the layers, especially for cutting into lengths and restacking for higher stacks
...stacks can be cut into canes of many shapes (square, rectangular or triangular, e.g.) , or segments cut from the stack can be used in many ways (e.g. Basketweave cane below)

Joanie's lesson on making a stack, then wrapping it with a sheet for a square cane, or making a basketweave pattern from segments
http://www.pbase.com/joanie/caning (ignore photo # 5)
Kris' lesson on making a two-color stack, then taking slices (for clothing)
http://www.sculpey.com/Projects/projects_PolyDollys.htm
Judy's lesson on making a toy polymer acrobat figure from diff. baked clay pattern pieces
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_clay_figures/article/0,1789,HGTV_3237_2831708,00.htm

a stripes block (usually rectangular) can be cut crosswise (across the stripes) into stripe slices ( each a rectangle of clay stripes)
...if the slice is used on end as a component in a cane, it will create a strip of small squares or rectangles next to each other
...or an individual slice can be cut across its stripes and use as single elements for onlay, etc.
....nenuphar's small strips cut from thick slice of striped stack as individual elements for onlaying onto a pin surface
http://isisesc.supelec.fr/gallery-nenuphar/Broches/aan ...galejade.com ?
...log wrapped with "stripes" . . wrap a log of one color (or any cane) with a sheet of stripes cut from the above slab so that the ends of the strips show around the perimeter of the log, and the stripes run lengthwise along the outside length of the log
........(OR another way to get this effect is to lay at least 5 tiny logs of 2 other colors each around a solid log --or any cane... roll into a round log.)
...Jana uses these very small in many of her canes (sometimes with a pre-grouped set of canes)... b&w, and also less contrasting colors
http://www.janarobertsbenzon.com/id1.html
Chris' lesson on a hydrangea cane uses several rows of these stripes, alternated with solid color rows, to create a petal cane
http://www.craftsbychrisonline.com/class/hibiscuscane.pdf
...Darlene's double layer of wide stripes wrapped around outside of cane (website gone)
...HelenClayArt's use of stripes cane sliced thin...flattened strip laid around a heart to frame it
http://www.homestead.com/HelensClayArt/page3jewelry.html (gone)

Stacks can be used for other other techniques as well
....e.g., folded canes, faux ivory or faux wood, faux tiger eye stones,. mokume gane, etc. (see relevant pages). . .
...create stripes as larger sheets (or combine slices), then use them as sheets of pattern
..........shapes can be cut from stripe sheets of pattern with shape cutters or blades... or bits can be cut or shaved off .....and onlaid or inlaid to other surfaces

Mia's cane (grid of wrapped logs) ... squashed ...then stacked in various orientations before slicing ("Monet cane")
http://www.pcpolyzine.com/august2001/mcane.html

Cindy P's lesson on making a "dotted" stack which created with a Skinner blend plug (using insertion)
...she starts with a stack of discrete blend layers (though created from a Skinner Blend plug)
...then cuts the stack completely into slices crosswise (from the striped side)... and lays several small contrasting-color logs across each slice (short way)
...she then recombines the slices into a stack but staggers each slice up or down from the one next to it (like a zigzag) which keeps the white dots created by the inserted logs from laying in straight lines ...this stack is then forced back into a log and shaped as a leaf or petal or as needed
http://www.cindysartandsoul.com/flowercane.html
... for something similar, see also Susan Hyde's faux fabric techique below under Ikat > Skinner Blend Variations

lesson sort-of ikat or faux-symmetrical effect created with stack of lengths cut from a long Skinner blend strip (cut crosswise into rectanglar sheets, each piece containing an entire blend)
...then stacking the rectangle sheets, switching orientation with each layer
...ends up like a stack of stripes with a dark area running down its center (looks a bit like a symmetrical pattern or rod illusion, but isn't)... (used to make basket weave, flower petal, etc.)
http://www.lapidaryjournal.com/stepbystep/may03clay.cfm
(...see more on Valerie's lesson on doing this below in Ikat + her examples of using them)

Cindy P has many uses of rows of cross-cut striped canes (slices used on end) for more complex canes
http://www.cindysartandsoul.com/canes1.html
.....here her rows are Skinner blends, separated by a solid color clay line (gone)

James Lehman has .many unusual patterns mostly created with caning http://www.akrobiz.com/polymer_clay/i_20.html
......including this orange & blue one, using incomplete stripes nex to each other to form a cane (then repeated)
http://www.akrobiz.com/polymer_clay/p_20_15.html and this http://www.akrobiz.com/polymer_clay/p_20_21.html
......James L uses strips of stripes (crosswise or lengthwise) to combine with other canes (often repeated for sheets of pattern which can be fabric-like
http://www.akrobiz.com/polymer_clay/p_20_18.html
James' many other uses of stripes for sheets http://www.akrobiz.com/polymer_clay/i_20.html

...Linda Sue's marbled clay (?) as one stripe .....(a solid color for the other) http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/3654/frame3.jpg (gone)
...Desiree used wide slices from the side of a mokume-type stack (without balls underneath