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Plastic Jewelry

Plastic, yes, that's right. Antique bakalite and lucite to the newest in friendly plastic and polyester make up some unqiuely beautiful jewelry.

Beadtown Bazaar
This site offers a list of plastic jewelry books available from Amazon.com.

Chadis Crafts Polymer Clay and Friendly Plastic Crafts Page
This artist uses a variety of polymer clays in here designs, sculpey, friendly clay and others.

Design Renathe Schneider
These unique rings are cast in polyester and hand-painted.

EJS Costume Jewelry Supply
This company provides a number of books on using Friendly Plastic to make jewelry.

Fashion Counts by Victoria
These earrings are made using beads created from colorful recycled pop and juice cans.

Friendly Plastic Bead Project
Use scraps of friendly plastic and make your own beads.

Karima Parry's Plastic Fantastic
This company provides a list of terminology applicable to plastic jewelry such as bakalite, celluloid, lucite, and other vintage plastic costume jewelry.

Lucky Squirrel
Projects and directions, along with supplies, are availalbe here for PolyShrink jewelry.

National Plastics Center and Museum
Try this friendly plastic experiment as described on their web site.

Shrink Art Pins by Diane
This stamp artist used shrink plastic and stamping techniques to make these beautiful pins.

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