Red, Gold and Green Mokume Gane

I made a stack of 4 different coloured clays, red, gold, green and transluscent, to make beads with a Mokume Gane finish.

Each colour of clay is rolled out and stacked up in alternating contrast colours.  The stack is then rolled out, then cut down the middle to stack up again.  For this stack I then rolled it out, cut down the middle and stacked again a couple more times.  You end up with a thick stack of clay which is made up of thin layers of contrasting clay.

From there you make impressions into the clay through all the layers.  When you slice thin pieces from the top of the stack, you get really interesting patterns and colour combinations.  These thin slices are then laminated onto the base bead and rolled to give a smooth finish.  The beads I made are all different sizes and shapes and will be great as accent beads in a necklace.  I also made a bangle from this same stack.

The results from this technique are so interesting and different everytime.