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• Pictures of Metal Clay Textures
• Found Textures
• Purchased Textures
• Texturing Tools to Make
• Texturing with Clay-on-Clay
• Texturing Dry Metal Clay
• Molding Materials and Information
• METAL CLAY TEXTURES POLL:
• Rubber Stamp Suppliers and Resources
• Suppliers and Information Resources for Metal Clay Textures
• Texturing Supplies on eBay
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• Metal Clay Texture Books on Amazon
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• Videos about creating textures for metal clay
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Pictures of Metal Clay Textures 

This is one side of three fine silver (.999 silver) hollow lentil beads I create...

This is the other side of the same 3 hollow lentil beads with keum-boo and liver...

This is the bead on the left of the previous pictures (set of 3 hollow lentil be...

This large fine silver brooch was created with precious metal clay with 22k gold...

This is the back of the orchid brooch.

This .999 silver pendant was created with precious metal clay (PMC) and accented...

Found Textures 

• Kitchen Tools and Supplies. There's no end to what your kitchen can provide for texturing metal clay. CeCe Wire made a famous ring design using a meat tenderizer for the texture pattern! Use an oiled garlic press to extrude strands of clay. Potato mashers, sponges, plastic scouring mesh, plastic netting from onions, ornate silverware handles - once you start looking for texture ideas in your kitchen, you'll see them everywhere. Yard sales are another great place to find cheap kitchen tools that make great textures. Drag the tines of a fork across your clay (or a layer of slip) to create parallel lines, straight or wavy. Impress aspic cutters partway into your clay in overlapping patterns. Ditto with straw ends of different sizes to create circle patterns. Caveat: When choosing texture tools from your kitchen, avoid those made of aluminum (or spray them with acrylic lacquer and dedicate them to metal clay use).
• Hardware/Garage Items. Your stash of hardware, tools and automotive items is a treasure trove of texture possibilities: screwdrivers, screws, nails, broken reflector lamps from cars or bicycles, old tire treads, pieces of torn window screening, etc. Leftover bricks, vinyl siding scraps and wood can make interesting textures; capture them with 2-part molding compound. Lightly-oiled coarse sandpaper makes a very interesting texture. Again, yard sales are a texture-scavenger's paradise.
• Bathroom Items. Combs, ridged caps from toothpaste and other tubes (drill a hole in the center, use a pin tool as a handle and roll the cap across the surface of your clay), toothbrushes, makeup sponges, rubber eyelash curler pads, clean mascara wands and more can be found in your bathroom.
• Textiles. Burlap, cheesecloth, lace, embroidered ribbons, appliqués and crocheted doilies all make great texturing tools for metal clay. Wonderful scraps of lace or stained doilies can be found at yard sales for very little money (or in the attic for nothing, if you're lucky!).
• Office Supplies. A clean typewriter ball is great for impressing individual letters and numbers on clay, although you have to be very careful when you use it. Changeable date/message stamps are much easier to use, especially the new magnetic ones. Take apart an old, cheap ballpoint pen that's run out of ink and use every part of it - the barrel, the tip, the end, even the pocket clip, if it has one - to impress textures into your clay.
• Metal, Leather and Clay Tools. Check out the tools you already own to see whether they can be re-purposed for texturing metal clay. Leather embossing stamps can be pressed into soft clay, as can metal stamps (just be sure to use a release agent, such as olive oil or a non-stick spray, before using with metal clay). Ball stylus tips make wonderful texture tools, as do burnishers, blades, paintbrush handles... just about anything in your toolkit, if you look at it with an eye for texture possibilities.
• Jewelry and Jewelry Making Supplies. Charms, jewelry, brass stampings and beads can be pressed directly into your clay or into 2-part molding compound. Create a changeable rolling texture tool by lightly oiling a bead with a great surface, sliding it onto a needle tool and rolling it along the surface of your clay.
• Pantry/Refrigerator. Everything from dried pasta to citrus peel can used to texture metal clay. Look beyond the obvious: breakfast cereals, corn husks, even oiled gummy candies can be used to impress textures. Some items, like the dried pasta, can be left pressed into the clay to burn out in the kiln. Some, like the gummy candies, should be oiled, pressed into the clay and removed, or pressed into 2-part molding compound to create textured molds you can use with your clay (see Texturing Tools to Make, below).
• Nature. Tree bark, leaves, twigs, nutshells, pine needles, pine cones and seashells are just a few of the many natural textures you can capture in metal clay. Press them directly into the clay or make molds from them (see Texturing Tools to Make, below).
• Found Objects. This is the most fun part of finding texturing opportunities. Buttons, carved moldings, old silverware, carved boxes, thimbles, wire mesh, plastic needlepoint canvas, knobs, finials, molded or textured glass - nearly anything can become a texture tool for metal clay. Start looking around your home - and at the world - through a different lens and you'll never be at a loss for texturing ideas. Keep small amounts of 2-part molding compound with you (you can put some into clean film canisters or buy individual-sized packages) to pick up textures you discover - a concrete sidewalk, wrought iron railing, slate tile, brick, etc.

Purchased Textures 

• Rubber stamps. Rubber stamps are a great source of textures. They come in a huge variety of sizes, shapes, depths and styles to suit any taste and project, and they're readily available. They can be used mounted or unmounted. Use an appropriate release on the stamp before impressing it on your metal clay. I prefer either olive oil or Cool Slip (by Cool Tools).
• Rubber and silicone texture plates and tips. There are some really fantastic patterns available in these flexible texturing mats and tips. Some of my favorites are Cool Tools' Texture Tips and Texture Tiles and Creative Texture Tools' Original Silicone Texture Plates.
• Brass texture plates. Brass texture plates create a subtle, low-relief texture that works well for keum-boo (diffusion-bonding gold foil to the surface of your fired fine silver piece with heat and pressure). PMC123 offers a particularly wide variety of them.
• Plastic texture plates / rubbing plates. These are comparatively inexpensive and both sides can be used so you can create positive/negative textures with them. Some brands include Shade-Tex, Roylco, Makins and Fiskars.
• Push molds. You can purchase push molds designed for polymer clay if you use an appropriate metal clay release (olive oil, Badger Balm, Cool Slip, etc.). However, most of these are not flexible and it can be difficult to remove the clay unless you allow it to dry in the mold first so it shrinks a bit. There are flexible silicone candy molds you can use (again, coat these with a release first) that have lovely designs.
• Magnetic alphabet/message stamps. Office supply stores and craft or scrapbooking stores carry magnetic alphabets you can use to create custom words or messages on a metal bar and then imprint on your clay.
• Embossing punches for paper. PMC sheet and Art Clay paper can be embossed using punches designed to emboss paper. Crafts and scrapbooking stores carry many different embosser designs, some of which have coordinating paper punches. Emboss first, then punch out the shape.

Texturing Tools to Make 

• Two-part molding compounds. Just mix the two putty compounds together according to directions (generally you mix equal parts until marbled or, in some cases, until a uniform color) and press the item you want to mold into the mixture. Like epoxy, proportions matter! Try rolling each part into a separate ball to compare the sizes before mixing them together. It also helps if you can contain the mold in a makeshift frame and weight it down with something heavy during curing. Wait the recommended time, then test the mold by pressing your fingernail into an unused area. If it springs back without leaving a mark, the mold has cured and you can remove your item. Each compound is a little different and should come with detailed instructions for its proper use.
  
  Many smooth-surfaced items don't need to be coated in a release before molding, but matte items may stick unless you first coat them with a thin smear of olive oil, Badge Balm, Cool Slip, etc., or spray them with acrylic lacquer and let them dry before molding. When in doubt, use a release on the itemm to be molded. A personal note - I've had better luck when I mix the two compounds to a uniform color even when the directions say you don't need to, but you have to work fast to press your item into the mold before the mixture starts to set up.
  
  Some popular brands of 2-part molding compound include Castaldo Quick-Sil, Cold Mold, Belicold, Puffinalia's Miracle Mold, Mega-Sil, Silicone Plastique Alley Goop and HattieS. Art Clay World also sells its own brand of 2-part silicone molding compound. My new favorite is Knead-a-Mold by Townsend Atelier.
• Photopolymer plates. Once you create a simple set-up with a UV light (available at Lowe's, Home Depot, etc., or you can use a manicurist's UV nail gel curing lamp from a beauty supply store like Sally Beauty Supply) and purchase the special sheets of photopolymer plate material, creating your own custom texture plates or stamps from black and white artwork is a quick and easy. Basically, you copy your image onto a piece of acetate (overhead transparency sheet), reverse the acetate copy so the design is backwards, lay it over the photopolymer plate, cover it with a piece of glass and back it with a cushioning of thin bubble wrap (or foam) Clamp the "sandwich" together with bulldog clips and expose the top to UV light to harden the parts of the design that are transparent, then scrub out the soft, unexposed material (where the design was black) under barely tepid water with a brush. Expose it again to harden the newly washed-out areas, brush with vegetable oil, and you've got your own, one-of-a-kind texture mat or stamp. A detailed tutorial, including a test strip for determining the correct exposure times for your individual setup, and an illustrated demo are available on Maggie Bergman's wonderful site. Art Clay World has another excellent tutorial.
• Polymer clay tear-away papers. This wonderful technique was invented by polymer clay artist Gwen Gibson in the mid-1990s and then developed further and refined by metalsmith, polymer clay and metal clay artist Celie Fago for more consistently repeatable results. It involves warming and burnishing toner-based photocopies against polymer clay and then tearing away the paper so that a layer of polymer clay adheres to the toner in the image. The paper is then baked to harden the polymer clay. The resulting texture is low-relief, making it perfect for texturing metal clay that will be used for keum-boo (diffusion-bonding gold to the surface of the silver). Excellent, detailed instructions for the tear-away technique are available in Celie's book, Keum-Boo on Silver, which you can purchase from her directly. It is also available from many of the metal clay suppliers.
• Polymer clay molds and molded texture mats. Sculpey Super Elasticlay MOLDMAKER was designed specifically for making one-sided flexible push molds. The clay needs to be baked before using the mold and it doesn't take detail as finely as the 2-part molding compounds, but it's also far less expensive. You can also make a reusable texture mat by rolling out a slab of conditioned polymer clay (I recommend Premo), pressing in a texture and baking it. Many items can be baked along with the clay to retain the best detail and then removed after baking. You can also make a texture mat by sliding a bead with an interesting surface onto a needle tool and rolling it over the clay before baking.
• Carve-your-own textures. You can use knives, files, woodcarving or linoleum gouges to carve your own textures from baked polymer clay, rubber carving sheets, even erasers! Caveat: Don't try to re-carve over your lines - the resulting image won't have clean edges.
• Rubber stamps of your own designs. Many printing companies will take black-and-white artwork you supply and turn it into a custom rubber stamp for you (be careful not to give them copyrighted images that you don't own!). I recommend sending your artwork to ReadyStamps, a division of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of San Diego. ReadyStamps provides excellent-quality rubber stamps as well as employment and training to people with disabilities, so you get a great product while also helping promote the independence of disabled workers. Make sure when you order your stamp to ask for the plate and matrix with which it was made as well as the rubber stamp itself. These are terrific texturing tools and really give you a bang for your buck!
• Reusable molding materials. MagicStamp is a heat-sensitive, reusable, moldable foam material. Heat it according to directions, press in the object whose texture you want to capture and let it cool. When you're done with your mold, reheat it and press in a new object to create a different mold. Oyumaru is another reusable molding material that is softened by heat. Dip it into hot water for 3 minutes, remove it with tongs, wipe it dry and press the item to be molded while the Oyumaru is still warm and soft. If it hardens before you have finished impressing the texture, just put it back into the hot water to soften it again.
• Steel stamping tools. If you have metalsmithing skills, you can even make your own steel stamps. Tim McCreight explains the process in his classic instructional book, "The Complete Metalsmith," published by Brynmorgen Press.

Texturing with Clay-on-Clay 

• Metal clay shavings or gratings. When you carve dried metal clay, save the shavings. Alternatively, take a bone-dry piece of clay and grate it on a cheese grater or something similar, or shave off pieces with a tissue blade or old vegetable peeler. Paint a generous amount of paste clay onto your piece and sprinkle heavily with the shavings. Press them into the paste to make sure they adhere well.
• Paste clay textures. Paint a thick layer of paste clay onto your piece and texture it while still wet. You can use a spatula like a frosting knife to create stucco textures, or draw a lightly-oiled pin tool or comb through it, just for starters.
• Sheet/paper clay appliques. Cut or punch shapes from PMC+ sheet or Art Clay paper type metal clay and attach them to rolled-out lump clay with a light brushing of water (on the underside of the cutout only!). Press with your barely-oiled fingertip or paintbrush handle. You can also laminate the remaining metal clay paper/sheet (negative image) onto rolled out lump clay to create recessed areas where the paper was cut or punched out.
• Syringe textures. Syringe clay embellishments are a great way to add texture to your piece. Dots, parallel lines, crosshatchee latticework, filigree-like curlicues - these are just a few of the ways to add texture to your piece.
• Metal clay veneer. Jay Humphreys invented a unique Metal Clay Veneer solution (formerly called PMC Veneer solution)that can be mixed with metal clay and poured onto textures to create flexible, textured sheets of metal clay. You can use them for embellishments, bezels, and much more. You can purchase both the Starter Kit and the Refill Kit for Metal Clay Veneer from Whole Lotta Whimsy. Petra Wennberg has put together a Squidoo lens on Metal Clay Veneer.

Texturing Dry Metal Clay 

• Carving. Carve dried metal clay with woodcarving or linoleum gouges. I love Dockyard brand microcarving gouges (be careful - they're VERY sharp!). Gouges come in a variety of sizes and shapes.
  
  Original PMC is the best metal clay for carving because its high proportion of binder makes it cut "like butter" and the details of your carving are sharpened after firing because it shrinks nearly 30%.
• Filing. Files can be used on dry metal clay pieces to form gouges, depressions, and other interesting surface textures.
• Drilling. Some interesting surface textures can be created by drilling depressions (or even holes) in the dry clay.
• Water etching. Absolutely wonderful surface textures can be created by applying a non-water-soluble resist, such as nail polish or wax, on dry metal clay and then removing clay from the exposed areas by wiping with a damp sponge or moist towelette (e.g., Wet Ones).
  
  Jewelry artist Catherine Davies Paetz published a terrific how-to article about this technique called "Water Works" in the September 2006 issue of Art Jewelry Magazine. Back issues are available directly from Art Jewelry Magazine or you can register (free) on the magazine's site to access a PDF of the article online.
  
  Jewelry artist and metal clay instructor Lora Hart also published a great water etching project, "Butterfly Bead", in the September/October 2006 issue of Lapidary Journal's Step by Step Beads. You can buy back issues from the Lapidary Journal Store or from Polka Dot Creations.
  
  And CeCe Wire, a former PMC Guild director, author, jewelry designer and award-winning teacher, has published notes from the wonderful "Clay Techniques with PMC" presentation she gave at the 2006 PMC Conference, which contain excellent instructions for water etching on PMC.

Molding Materials and Information 

Knead-a-Mold (Townsend Atelier)

Knead-a-Mold is a wonderful two-part silicone mold-making compound. It is non-toxic (even food-safe!) and reproduces fine detail beautifully. The putty is quite soft before it cures, so mixing the two parts of the compound together is extremely easy.

At an ambient temperature of 70F-72F, Knead-a-Mold has an open working time ("pot life") of about 6 minutes and cures in only 6 minutes! It can be heated to up to 300F.

Brush-a-Mold (Townsend Atelier)

Brush-a-Mold is similar to Knead-a-Mold 2-part silicone molding compound except that, instead of being a putty, it has a a spreadable, gel-like consistency. It can be used as an alternative to Knead-a-Mold and is especially good for covering large surface areas or soft items that could be distorted or damaged if pressed into putty (for example, an unbaked polymer clay model).

Brush-a-Mold has a longer open working time ("pot life") than Knead-a-Mold - about 16 minutes - but also takes longer to cure - about 20 minutes at an ambient temperature of 70F-72F.

Note: Brush-a-Mold and Knead-a-Mold bond together perfectly, so you can use them together (e.g., spread Brush-a-Mold onto a delicate part of your model and then press the rest of it into Knead-a-Mold).

Photopolymer Plate Information and Supplies (Maggie Bergman)

Maggie Bergman is one of the world's experts on creating photopolymer plates to use as metal clay texturing tools. Her site provides wonderful instructions about how to make PPPs and an excellent demo. She also sells the plate material.

Castaldo Quick-Sil (and other rubber molding products) - Instructions and Tips

This page on the Castaldo site includes links to product information, mold making instructions, problem-solving guide for mold making, and other great tips and techniques for making rubber molds.

Culinart (Silicone Plastique)

Culinart's Silicone Plastique 2-part molding compound was designed for the food industry, as it can safely come into contact with chocolate, butter, etc. But it's also terrific for making texture molds for metal clay. It sets up more slowly than most of the other 2-part compounds listed, so you have 20-30 minutes of working time, but it also cures more slowly (about an hour at room temperature).

Clay Alley (Alley Goop and texture plates)

Alley Goop is also FDA-approved for use with food, but sets up and cures significantly faster than Silicone Plastique: it mixes in one minute or less and cures in only six minutes. It comes in a wide range of sizes, from 4oz samplers to huge 10lb containers. Clay Alley also sells Shade-Tex, Makins and Roylco texture plates as well as lots of other items for polymer clay, many of which are suitable for metal clay.

Contenti (Cold Mold)

Contenti's Cold Mold 2-part molding compound has a working time of approximately 2 minutes and a set-up time of approximately 30 minutes. The site includes good instructions for making several different types of molds. Although they recommend the use of a vulcanizer during curing, molds can be made using just a heavy book for pressure. Contenti also carries Art Clay products as well as a full line of wonderful jewelry making tools and supplies, including metal clay kilns.

Microsonic (Mega-Sil)

Mega-Sil comes in bulk containers as well as "Solos" - pocket-sized packs of molding compound large enough for a single mold. These are convenient to carry with you for those textures you discover by serendipity in your travels (that you can't take back with you).

Puffinalia (Miracle Mold)

Puffinalia's Miracle Mold is an excellent 2-part rubber molding compound. It captures fine detail and is more heat-resistant than most of the other 2-part molding compounds. The product has a shelf life of at least a year and the molds you make from it last indefinitely. It comes in 1/2 lb. containers as well as small sampler packs that are useful for capturing textures on-the-go.

Rio Grande (Belicold)

Belicold is an excellent "cold mold" material. Press your soft clay into the mold and flex the mold to release it right away - don't let it dry in the mold. Note: Belicold does not have an indefinite shelf life and may separate after a year or so. Although you can stir it to mix it back to a homogeneous consistency, you probably won't get as good results as you would from a fresher supply. Of course, Rio carries a HUGE array of jewelry making tools and supplies, including PMC, metal clay kilns, and metal clay-specific tools and supplies.

Smooth-On mold making materials

Smooth-On makes a range of different mold making materials with different properties and optimized for different applications. Whole Lotta Whimsy carries their OOMOO 25 two-part liquid silicone rubber compound, which can be poured or brushed into every nook and cranny of even intricate objects whose texture you want to capture in a flexible mold.

Super Elasticlay MOLDMAKER

This is Sculpey's product page for Super Elasticlay MOLDMAKER.

METAL CLAY TEXTURES POLL: 

PMC and Art Clay just beg for texture, don't they?

Rubber Stamp Suppliers and Resources 

Addicted To Rubber Stamps

This site sells a huge variety of rubber stamps from more than a thousand brands, in every category and design you can imagine. They claim to have more than 1 million items in stock!

After Midnght Art Stamps (and Krafty Lady Art Moulds)

A huge assortment of rubber stamps, inks, and one of two U.S. distributors (along with Whole Lotta Whimsy) for Krafty Lady Art Moulds (which makes a huge selection of multipurpose flexible molds in unusual designs that can be used with metal clay - see "Suppliers and Information Resources for Metal Clay Textures," below).

Art Neko

Fabulous rubber art stamps including full sheets of stamps with exquisite detail and deep impressions. (Thanks to my colleague Susanne Willert who told me about this great site!)

Hanko Designs

You'll find a lovely selection of Asian and Hawaiian rubber stamps on this site (as well as origami papers, books and supplies). Includes gorgeous Asian background pattern stamps.

Hero Arts

A terrific collection of rubber stamps and clear stamps by this well-known manufacturer. Includes Shadow Stamps background stamps, Quatros (sets of 4 themed stamps), alphabet stamp sets and much more.

Impression Obsession

Some wonderful, unusual rubber stamps by talented artists including Alesa Baker, Gary Robertson, Melissa Gordon, Melissa Rodger, and others. Also clear acrylic stamps.

Ma Vinci's Reliquary

The best collection of alphabet and number rubber stamps I've seen, and many of them come in a tiny size (about 3/16" tall). There are also some great word and phrase rubber stamps on this site. It's difficult to navigate because there is no search feature and no ability to browse by size only, but it's worth taking the time to browse. All the stamps are unmounted. An Angel Company.

ReadyStamps Order Form

Here's a convenient, printable order form for ordering a custom rubber stamp (and its plate and matrix) from ReadyStamps.

Tips and Information About ReadyStamps (Sarajane Helm)

Well-known polymer clay artist and author Sarajane Helm has created this wonderful page with a great explanation of the ReadyStamps custom rubber stamp, plate and matrix products. It's filled with tips about how to order, use and care for them, too.

Red Castle, Inc.

Red Castle sells unmounted sheets of excellent-quality rubber stamps in a wide range of patterns and subject matter, including some nifty alphabet stamps. They also sell CD-ROMs of what they call Antique Images (as well as template software and other items related to scrapbooking).

Rubber Designs Paper Craft Art Supplies

Rubber Designs carries MagicStamp moldable foam, rubber stamps, word and alphabet stamps, paper punches, and many other supplies for paper crafts.

Rubber Stamps of America

A great source for rubber stamps, this company will also create custom rubber or photopolymer stamps from your black-and-white artwork. This is an excellent resource if you want to have photopolymer textures but don't want to make them yourself.

Stampscapes

Extraordinary, intricately detailed rubber stamps of landscapes and nature scenes. An angel company, they give artists permission to use their stamps for individually hand-stamped products for resale.

Stone House Stamps

Gorgeous, extremely detailed unmounted rubber art stamps. Intricate designs focus on Asian, Vintage and Fantasy themes. (Another great resource I learned about from talented metal clay artist Susanne Willert.)

Rubber Stamp Angel Companies

This is an extremely useful page of links to rubber stamp "angel companies" that allow limited use of their designs in pieces that will be sold. Most of them allow only hand-stamped items, not mechanically-stamped or production pieces, and each has its own policy that you must read before using its stamps in your designs for sale. Some require attribution/credit.

Suppliers and Information Resources for Metal Clay Textures 

Argentice (UK)

Argentice is a UK supplier of jewelry making tools and PMC supplies. They carry ShadeTex rubbing plates, Mini-Mould Rapid 2-part molding compoung, wax sculpting tools for carving metal clay and cookie cutters for texturing as well as cutting clay.

Art Clay World USA

The USA home of Art Clay Silver and Gold products and information, run by designer, author and metal clay expert Jackie Truty. Art Clay World sells photopolymer sheet material as well as Oyumaru molding compound and its own private brand of 2-part silicone putty molding compound, metal clay molds, plastic texture plates, and a wide array of other metal clay supplies and tools. They recently added a UV lamp that will expose your photopolymer plates really quickly and easily.

Boxcar Press

Boxcar Press, which specialized in handcrafted letterpress printing and handcrafted photopolymer plates, also sells both steel-backed and plastic-backed unexposed photopolymer plates for creating your own textures. (I recommend the deep plastic-backed plates, model KF 152.) Owner and founder Harold Kyle is extremely knowledgeable and is very generous with his technical knowledge if you have questions about which type or thickness of plate to buy for your project, how to store them, etc.

Cool Tools

Cool Tools has a terrific line of proprietary texture mats (Texture Tiles) and small texture stamps (Texture Tips) as well as Cool Slip, my favorite anti-stick product for use as a release with any texture. Mardel also carries a fabulous array of metal clay tools and supplies, including great prices on PMC, natural and lab gemstones and CZs, and a growing line of excellent Cool Tools-exclusive products including the Cool Roller, Clay-Mate hand conditioner, and many others. She just came out with some gorgeous molds made from antique buttons.

Creative Texture Tools

Elaine Luther designs and sells her own wonderful silicone texture plates. (The directions say you don't need to use a release, but I have found some sticking when I don't use a thin film of olive oil or Cool Slip, so that's what I use.) She also sells some great micro wheels that roll narrow textures along your clay, as well as old typewriter balls you can use to impress letters or numbers into your clay. Creative Texture Tools also has a wonderful selection of cutters, as well as tools and other metal clay supplies including keum-boo supplies.

Dick Blick

Dick Blick sells discounted art supplies, including Staedtler Mastercarve carving blocks, wood and linoleum carving gouges, linoleum carving blocks, and Shade-Tex and Roylco rubbing plates (plastic texture mats).

Fire Mountain Gems

Fire Mountain Gems carries Art Clay World's 2-part molding compound, plastic texture sheets (rubbing plates) and clay carving tools as well as the full line of Art Clay products and a wide assortment of CZs and both natural and lab gemstones.

Krafty Lady Art Moulds (Australia)

Flexible molds in really interesting designs that can be used to mold metal clay (as well as many other materials). Krafty Lady also makes a nice assortment of textures. Both the molds and the textures are available in the U.S. from After Midnight (see rubber stamp companies, above) and from Whole Lotta Whimsy.

MED'A Creations

Mary Ellin D'Agostino's site offers brass texture plates as well as some of my favorite rubber texture mats (and some great Badger Balm fragrances, if you use Badger Balm as a release). She's also got a really good selection of texture wheels. And, of course, she carries a full line of metal clay supplies and tools (including her wonderful Rainbow PMC Enamel kits and some terrific assortments of CZs).

Mister Art

Mister Art has great discount prices on art supplies, including several major brands of carving blocks and carving tool sets, Shade-Tex rubbing plates (plastic texture mats), Fiskars Texture Plates, paper punches and embossers, embossing wheels, rubber stamps (including magnetic stamp sets), polymer clay molds, Sculpey Super Elasticlay MOLDMAKER clay and much more.

PMC123

PMC123 offers a great assortment of metal clay tools and supplies, including the widest assortment of brass texture plates I've found. They also carry a set of 1/16" steel letters & numbers that can be used for texturing your clay.

PMC Supply / Art Clay Supply

PMC Supply carries a huge selection of metal clay materials, tools and supplies, including HattieS 2-part molding compound, HattieS rubber texture mats and stamps, HattieS No-Stick Spray, a great selection of rubber texture mats, letter and number stamps, and a wonderful all-around selection of metal clay materials and tools. They also carry the new Makins Professional Ultimate Clay Extruder designed specifically for use with metal clay.

Rings 'n' Things

Rings 'n' Things carries plastic texture plates (rubbing plates), stainless steel wax carvers and rubber carving sheet you can use with woodcarving or linoleum cutting tools to make your own rubber texture mats. They also carry Art Clay products, including Art Clay World's 2-party molding compound.

SilverClay (Art Clay UK)

Owner Petra Wennberg, Art Clay Senior Instructor and Certified PMC Artisan, sells Metal Clay Veneer (and is the author of the Metal Clay Veneer lens on Squidoo), as well as two-part molding compounds, texture sheets, silicone molds and alphabet stamps for texturing metal clay. She offers a full range of Art Clay products and related tools and supplies, and her site is chock-full of excellent how-to information.

Whole Lotta Whimsy

Whole Lotta Whimsy is a wonderful, full-service supplier of everything related to metal clay. For texturing, they carry rubber textures, plastic textures, texture rollers, Jay Humphreys' Metal Clay Veneer solution, CD and refill kit, carving blanks, carving tools (gouges), punches and decorative scissors for metal clay paper/sheet, push molds, rubber stamps, metal stamps (including alphabet/letter stamps), photopolymer plates and related supplies (including UV lamps), Kato and Premo brands of polymer clay, water etching supplies including Mayco wax and elephant ear sponges, files, the Makin's Ultimate Professional Clay Extruder, Smooth-On brand two-part molding material, and more!

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Metal Clay Texture Books on Amazon 

Complete Metalsmith, ProPlus Edition

by Tim McCreight

Amazon Price: $45.00 (as of 05/20/2008)

Working with Precious Metal Clay (Jewelry Crafts) (Jewelry Crafts)

by Tim McCreight

Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 05/20/2008)

Metal Clay Jewelry

by Louise Duhamel

Amazon Price: $15.63 (as of 05/20/2008)

Art Clay Silver and Gold: 18 Unique Jewelry Pieces to Make in a Day

by Jackie Truty

Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 05/20/2008)

Art Stamping Workshop: Create Hand-Carved Stamps for Unique Projects on Paper, Fabric, Polymer Clay and More

by Gloria Page

Amazon Price: $15.63 (as of 05/20/2008)

Texture Tools on Amazon 

Rubber Stamps 8 Piece Set-Thank You Messages

Amazon Price: $19.49 (as of 05/20/2008)

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