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FIMO CLAY TUBES/ROUNDS

For Fimo Flags of the World, Click HERE

FIMO MUSHROOM CHARMS!

EACH IS UNIQUE. No two alike! $1.50 each
30mm Tall with ring at the top
More Mushrooms, Click HERE

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FIMO CLAY PRINTS AND TIE-DYE
TUBE BEADS

Tubes are available in two sizes and various prints and colors as follows:
small 1/2" = $25.00 per 100
large 3/4" = $40.00 per 100
Also may be available as 12mm Disc = 50 cents each
and 20mm Disc = 75 cents each
Those available as discs will be noted.
Prices are for any of the prints listed below:

Skull Round Discs 20mmNew!!

Chunky Round 20mm
Available where noted. 75 cents each

NEW!!! Skull Tubes!!!
Available in 1/2" and 3/4" Tubes

For more Halloween stuff, click HERE

Pot Leaf Disks New!!

Chunky Round 20mm
Available where noted. 75 cents each

Pot Leaf Tube Beads New!!

3/4" and 1/2" Tube Beads

Camouflage Tubes
Available in 1/2" and 3/4" Tubes

Pink Flamingos!!!
Available in 1/2" and 3/4"

DOLPHINS AND SUN FACES
Available in 1/2" and 3/4"

PATRIOTIC PRINTS
Stars/Stripes or American Flag
Available in 3/4" ONLY
More Flags are available Here

Animal Prints * = available in 1/2 inch only. + = available in 3/4 inch only.	Tie-Dye Prints
White Cow Dark Cow Jaguar Giraffe Antelope Dark Giraffe White Zebra Zebra/Giraffe Leopard Purple Zebra* Green Zebra Red Zebra +	Sunflower Denim/Flower Orange Red Purple Green Blue Yellow

Mickey Walter (email her) makes these beautiful bracelets using our spacers and print beads. Click on the picture for a closer look.

What is Fimo?

Patterns or pictures are made by stacking different colors and different shapes of polymer clay (FIMO) in thin strips about 3 feet long one on top of ther other until a tube at least 6 inches thick is formed. This "tube" is called a cane. The artist who lays up this cane has to be very precise and see that the different colors run perfectly from one end to the other, otherwise the picture will not be the same at various points on the cane. This all means that you should be able to slick through the cane anywhere its length and it will be exactly the same as it appears on each end.

Once the cane is completed, it is carefully rolled down by hand on a flat surface until it is about 3-4 inches thick. This rolling down also makes the cane very much longer, probably about 6 feet at this stage. This process has to be done very carefully so as not to distort the image, because if this happens, the completed cane cannot be used, nothing can be retrieved and it cannot be repaired. A cane has a shelf life of about a year and sections can be cut off to insert into other canes being built, which is why images will appear on tubes or discs or blocks.

The cane can be rolled down to as little as 5mm and still retain the full original picture. To make the tube beads, thin slices of the cane are wrapped around waste clay, which in turn is wrapped around wire rods, then cut to length and baked in a regular oven. All FIMO has to be finally baked as it will otherwise remain soft.

If you break one of these discs in half, you will see the picture running right through from one side to the other and perhaps understand more fully how FIMO beads and discs are created. They are not easy to make.

Now you know as much as we do. Never let it be said that Trash City is not an educational place to shop! :-)

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