Millefiori process in three minutes

A short video to show the process of making millefiori patterns in polymer clay.
This is a very ancient technique that has been around since the 6th Century. More recently it became associated with Venetian glasswork producing paperweights with tiny glass flowers - the origin of the name millefiori (literally 'a thousand flowers').
It has now been "borrowed" by polymer artists like me - the resulting small blocks of clay have a unique design that runs through the clay like the words through a stick of rock.
These 'canes' are then sliced and used as decorative veneers in hundreds of different applications.
The patterns are unique and are usually impossible to recreate.

[@leighgifford4050]

This is freaking BRILLIANT!!! I appreciate all the hard work and dedication to real time work..... but to have it compressed into a video like this, is fantastic for the intermediate level makers, like myself!

[@stacyw3250]

I agree. A lot of haters here who don't know where the pause and rewind button is. I'd watch a video like this any time, better than somebody jabbering on too long.

[@polymerclayinspired7248]

Would love to see more tutorials

[@eileenosullivan4748]

Beautiful thank you

[@aideemedina6006]

❤

[@jennifertaylor1178]

Awesome! May I ask what conditioning machine you are using please?

[@SparrowStockwell]

Wow! I love it!

[@RubaiyatA]

Wow this is soo amazing. Love to see more.

[@jeanettecook1088]

Nice caning.... thanks for posting. New sub! 👏

[@areUsureTV]

This is amazing to watch 😍

[@melanie7391]

Ça me rappelle les bijoux en fimo que l'on faisait soi-même. A la mode il y a 15 ans.

[@reneemills8020]

Beautiful and well done Where did you get those section dividers on the pasta machine

[@doodlepippin6721]

Thanks Renee! The dividers came with the machine - it’s an Artway Dream Machine. Made in the USA, expensive, and slow to get over here to the UK. But it has been a great workhorse and I have abused it for years without it suffering any ill effects!

[@doodlepippin6721]

For anyone interested in learning, my 20 page tutorial is available here: www.doodlepippin.co.uk/products/polymer-millefiori-tutorial-doodlepippin

[@debbiegaines1362]

Do you have a tutorial on your bracelets? Thank you!

[@sheliahuggins5721]

May I ask what brand of rolling machine you have? You do beautiful work. Thanks for sharing.

[@doodlepippin6721]

Hi Sheila - thank you! It’s called an Artway Dream Machine. It’s specifically made for polymer clay and they’re made by Polymer Clay Express in the USA. It was expensive (and I bought it four or five years ago!) a bit of a faff to get it over here to the UK, but it has been great. I condition and process quite a lot of clay at a time, so it’s quite a heavyweight, industrial piece of kit - if you’re making smaller canes, it might frustrate you because the thinnest sheet isn’t particularly thin. But it’s fairly bomb proof and very easy to clean. I assume they’re still making them!

[@yoda5498]

Nice mum

[@Ab-abovetheFirmament]

Looks easy enough. I am sure I would butcher it. 😅

[@conorhannon2233]

Who’s here from art history 😑

[@sallyreynolds8340]

Very nice but very bad trying to teach it on your speed!

[@doodlepippin6721]

Sorry Sally! It wasn’t really meant to be a teaching video, more to explain the process to people who (understandably!) find it hard to visualise! If you’d like a proper tutorial that you can work through at your own pace, my 20pp tutorial covers most of what I used to teach in workshops and is available here:

[@doodlepippin6721]

www.doodlepippin.co.uk/products/polymer-millefiori-tutorial-doodlepippin

[@TeresaPandoraSalgado]

In the title it say three minutes. There are lots of full length caning vids though.

[@sallyreynolds8340]

Are serious who is going understand this speedy process Horrible