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Art Clay Silver ~ sometimes called precious metal clay, or just metal clay is a fascinating material which gives you amazing artistic freedom, and, in a few easy steps, lets you create fine silver or gold hand made jewellery using tools you probably already have at home.

Not only can you use Art Clay Silver to make your own original jewellery, but those of you using ceramics, glass or polymer clay who are interested in exploring new creative materials can add a whole new dimension to your work by combining Art Clay Silver with your traditional materials.

Art Clay Silver Clay and Gold Clay, made by the Aida Corporation, is often referred to as metal clay, precious clay or silver clay.

It can be shaped, moulded, pressed, rolled, coiled, sculpted, thrown, pulled and cut just as you would with any other clay, even extruded from a syringe to create filigree-like designs. You can use slip or paste to glue pieces together and add fine silver wire, sterling silver, dichroic glass and other materials before firing.

Then, amazingly, when fired in a kiln, on a gas cook top, or even with a small kitchen torch you end up with real, pure 99.9% silver. It can be hallmarked at any assay office as pure fine silver ~ 999. There is also a gold version of the clay, which turns into 22 carat gold when fired.

After firing it can be drilled, filed, polished, burnished, tumbled, hammered, enamelled, soldered, in fact, anything you would do to any other precious metal you can do with silver clay. You can decorate your piece with Accent Gold for Silver™ (AGS) or Art Clay Gold Paste to give you sparkling gold accents or combine the clay with other metals or materials like copper, beads, dichroic glass, felt, leather, semi-precious gemstones, pearls, polymer clay, porcelain, wood~ your imagination is the limit.

If you have any questions or comments, please email me at: astonmerchandise@aol.com