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Joan Tayler Artist’s Bio Joan has worked in many art mediums and as a graphic designer. She fell in love with polymer clay because of its versatility and because it allows her to make original art that is in everyone's reach. She especially appreciates that children like and can afford her work. In the late 1930's Fifi Rebinder, the daughter of a doll maker discovered a replacement for the porcelain that was impossible to find in Germany during the war. That replacement was polymer clay. Polymer clay is made of tiny plastic particles with a binder. When the resulting clay is heated it forms a hard strong material. Polymer
clay can be sculpted like clay, made into patterns like Venetian
glass and made to mimic metal and stone. The millefiori technique
was first used by the ancient Egyptians and revived in the 17th
century in Venice. Venetian glass was famous in Europe and Africa
where it was used as trading beads.
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