Last Sunday afternoon (06/03/07) the Indy Chapter of the PMC Guild met at the Indianapolis Art League. Although they will not meet in July or August 2007, meetings generally will be held the 1st Sunday afternoon of the month at the Indianapolis Art Center. Due to the Labor Day weekend, however, the next meeting will be held on Sunday, September 9th (2nd Sunday) and then October 7 with no meetings scheduled for November or December 2007.The meeting dates for 2008 are as follows: January 6th, February 3rd, March 2nd and April 6th.
So what is PMC? Precious Metal Clay, PMC, is an exciting material developed and patented in the 1990s by Mitsubishi Materials of Japan. Microscopic particles of silver are mixed with a moist binder to create a material that has the feel and working properties of modeling clay. Using simple tools, objects are easily given shape, texture, and character. After air-drying, the objects are heated to temperatures approaching the melting point of the metal, where the particles fuse together to make a dense, fully metallic object. Fired PMC work can be polished, soldered, enameled, and enjoyed like any other silver item. PMC is available in three different versions of silver and in a 22k gold alloy.
If you have an interest in learning more about PMC, please join us or visit http://www.pmcguild.com/.
This post displays two of my jewelry designs featuring PMC pendants. The picture above feautures a PMC pendant created with a two-part mold of a vintage Art Deco style glass button. There are two button holes. One button hole is used for the pendant bail and the other button hole creates a bezel for the purple CZ accent stone. This is a two-strand necklace with one strand of freshwater pearls separated by sterling silver beads andanother strand of lovely faceted amethyst beads separated bysterling silver rondells.
This post displays two of my jewelry designs featuring PMC pendants. The picture above feautures a PMC pendant created with a two-part mold of a vintage Art Deco style glass button. There are two button holes. One button hole is used for the pendant bail and the other button hole creates a bezel for the purple CZ accent stone. This is a two-strand necklace with one strand of freshwater pearls separated by sterling silver beads andanother strand of lovely faceted amethyst beads separated bysterling silver rondells.
The lower photo features a donut-shaped pendant in which 30-gauge fine silver wire has been crocheted into a circle and then embedded into PMC. The bail for this pendant includes a faceted rose quartz bead. This is also a two strand necklace. One strand is composed of Peruvian pink opal beads separated by fine silver spacer beads and the other strand is a hand crocheted rope of fine silver wire with rose quartz chips.
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