The Art of Polymer Clay : Designs and Techniques for Making Jewelry, Pottery and Decorative Artwork -- Donna Kato-- Available in a tremendous array of colors and easily cured by baking in a home oven, polymer clay is a unique medium for creating a variety of beautiful items. In The Art of Polymer Clay, noted artist Donna Kato explains the basics as well as many unusual techniques, including imitative methods that can be used to create the look of semi-precious stones, woven fabric, carved wood, metal, and realistic flowers. Kato's sense of style and color is superb, and her directions are clear and concise..  It's really unbelievable how many people love this book.  if you're starting or don't have this book; just get it!

The Polymer Clay Techniques Book -- Sue Heaser ---  You can achieve great results with polymer clay! With the 50+ techniques in this book, you can create polymer clay buttons or boxes or anything in between. Starting with the very basics (such as rolling, baking and gluing), Sue then moves on to more advanced methods: marbling, texturing, millefiori, bead-making, faux-stone effects and more. Feature spreads show exciting ways to combine techniques. You'll find this a comprehensive guide to the medium, complete with everything from a listing of necessary tools and materials to inspiring examples of polymer clay art.  A great book by Sue Heaser,  a professional crafter whose skills range from glass etching and puppet-making to textile crafts and pottery.

Foundations in Polymer Clay Design -- Barbara E. McGuire -- a reader writes of this book: " This is a great polymer clay book for beginners. It is in full color & packed with many unique & inspirational artwork examples. With a wide variety of easy projects & techniques, you are sure to find one that suits your taste.     One of the great things about this book is that beginning artists get a crash course in the elements of design while creating beautiful artwork. Projects teach basic principles such as color, shape, line, texture, pattern, movement, contrast, & unity."

The Art of Polymer Clay : Designs and Techniques for Making Jewelry, Pottery and Decorative Artwork (Watson-Guptill Crafts)

Donna Kato / Paperback / Published 1997

Artists at Work : Polymer Clay Comes of Age

Pierrette Brown Ashcroft, et al / Paperback / Published 1998

Creating With Polymer Clay : Designs, Techniques, & Projects

Steven Ford, Leslie Dierks / Paperback / Published 1996

Creative Clay Jewelry : Extraordinary Colorful Fun : Designs to Make from Polymer Clay

Leslie Dierks / Paperback / Published 1994

Five Artists-Five Directions : Working in Polymer Clay

Jamey D. Allen / Paperback / Published 1994

Foundations in Polymer Clay Design

Barbara E. McGuire / Paperback / Published 1999

How to Make Clay Characters

Maureen Carlson / Paperback / Published 1997

How to Make Perfect Dollhouse Figures

Kitty Mackey / Paperback / Published 1998

Make Your Own Great Earrings : Beads, Wire, Polymer Clay, Fabric, Found Objects

Jane Laferla / Paperback / Published 1998

 

Making Doll's House Miniatures With Polymer Clay

Sue Heaser / Hardcover / Published 1998

Making Miniature Dolls With Polymer Clay : How to Create and Dress Period Dolls in 1/12 Scale

Sue Heaser / Hardcover / Published 1999 

Making Miniature Flowers With Polymer Clay

Barbara Quast / Paperback / Published 1998 

Making Original and Portrait Dolls in Cernit

Rotraut Schrott / Hardcover / Published 1993

Making Polymer Clay Jewelry

Sue Heaser / Paperback / Published 1998  --- There are a number of different approaches to the popular craft of working with polymer clay, which is baked at low temperatures. Sue Heaser demonstrates the following possibilities for this versatile material: make it into colored canes that resemble Italian millefiori glass; model it into shapes, just as you would with regular clay or porcelain; or press it into molds and paint it. Sophisticated polymer clay aficionados may not be drawn to Heaser's bright animal and flower shapes, but this is a particularly good primer for those interested in the material's modeling qualities. The jewelry, buttons, and hair accessories are well described and make excellent projects for beginners.  -- another great book by Sue!

The New Clay : Techniques and Approaches to Jewelry Making

Nan Roche, et al / Paperback / Published 1992

 

New Ways With Polymer Clay : The Next Generation of Projects and Techniques

Kris Richards / Paperback / Published 1997

Polymer Clay 2000 - A Juried Calendar

Trudy E. Schwartz-Burrill / Calendar / Published 1999

Polymer Clay : Studio-In-A-Box

Stephen Ford, Leslie Dierks / Paperback / Published 1998

The Polymer Clay Techniques Book

Sue Heaser / Paperback / Published 1999

 

Polymer Claywork (New Crafts)

Mary Maguire, et al / Hardcover / Published 1996

 

Sculpting and Making a Toddler Doll Head to Toe : Using Water Clay, Sculpey or Cernit

Susan Dunham / Paperback / Published 1996

 

Sewing & Sculpting Dolls : Easy-To-Make Dolls from Fabric, Modeling Paste, and Polymer Clay

Eloise Piper / Paperback / Published 1997

Creating Christmas Ornaments from Polymer Clay : 10 Original Designs With Step-By-Step Instructions (A Schiffer Book for Craftspeople)

Bridget C. Albano, Jeffrey B. Snyder / Paperback / Published 1995

 

Creating Life-Like Animals in Polymer Clay

Katherine Dewey / Paperback / Published 2000

Family & Friends in Polymer Clay

Maureen Carlson / Paperback / Published 2000

 

Fimo Clay Cuties : 7 Charming Polymer Clay Projects

Janet Farris / Paperback / Published 1995

 

Making Christmas Jewelry in Polymer Clay : With 14 Original Patterns for Festive Christmas Jewelry (A Schiffer Book for Craftspeople)

Bridget C. Albano, Jeffrey B. Snyder / Paperback / Published 1995

 

Making Miniature Villages in Polymer Clay

Gail Ritchey / Paperback / Published 2000