Is it possible to make dolls house furniture from Polymer Clay?
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 at
7:47 pm
I have an empty dolls house and I want to furnish it but dolls house furniture is really expenive and all victoriany and edwardiany. I want my house to be modern but the only modern furniture I can find are about £17.99 for 1 table.
I have heard that fimo clay is really good to work with and wondered if it would be possible to make little tables and chairs out of it.
Please Please Please help!!!! Thanks
If one table costs that much in a modern style, I am going to guess that you have a fairly large scale house which means you will not have to make little tiny artifacts to go in it. If you look around on the internet, you will find instructions for rolling out polymer clay into sheets and methods for making rods and other shapes as well as making color patterns. You will have to start by learning to handle the material and to either draw plans of the right size or find plans and drawings that you can enlarge or reduce so you can lay out the pieces in the right size and shape. Neither of these are very hard.
On the other hand, you might look at using wood to make items that are made of wood – like beds and tables, etc. There is a long tradition of doing this and methods (and bragging about it) will also be found on the Internet. The first comment about wood not being very durable is probably based on kids using small wood objects that are abused as opposed to molded plastic toys.
The real question is how good at sculpting you are. Small figures can take an extraordinary amount of work. Same goes for small scale furniture. Sculpting clay is okay for some things (like beanbag furniture, small pots), but not everything.
Plasticard is another choice, and works for super-thin tables seen in modern designs. However, it also costs a bit of money. You can find it at stores that supply materials for interior design classes or model train hobbyists.
Very thin sheets of wood can be found at hobby stores. It is less durable and much weaker than plastic card. However, it does cost less.
YUP GO TO http://www.youtube.com/user/APolymerClayWorld?feature=mhum AND YOU WILL SEE HOW TO CREATE DIFFERENT THINGS 8)