Millefiori process in three minutes

A short video to show the process of making millefiori patterns in polymer clay. This is a very ancient technique that has been around since the 6th Century. More recently it became associated with Venetian glasswork producing paperweights with tiny glass flowers - the origin of the name millefiori (literally ’a thousand flowers’). It has now been “borrowed“ by polymer artists like me - the resulting small blocks of clay have a unique design that runs through the clay like the words through a stick of rock.