As you may have noticed, I like making striped jewellery. But in today's tutorial I wanted to show how easy it is to make a striped log. 

Any series of articles about complex caning would be incomplete if it did not show you how to incorporate multiple patterned logs into your cane. This article shows you how to make a cane with 5 flowers in the pattern. In this example I show how to use the slices on a bead, but you could obviously use it for whatever type of jewellery you’d like. 

This tutorial forms part of the complex cane or millifiori technique series. One of the common ways to use a complex cane is by adding slices from the millifiori cane onto another cane. This tutorial shows how to do it. 

Making a complex cane is hard work. This tutorial forms part of the complex cane or millifiori technique tutorials. This tutorial shows how you can incorporate slices from your complex cane to make a pretty pendant.

For one of my Christmas presents I got a book on the history of beads. I really liked one of the beads on the cover.

Jelly rolls are one of the basic caning techniques. It is often used in more complex canes but can also be sliced to form round beads.  A cane is a rod or log of clay. The advantage of creating canes like this one is that you can create a pattern throughout the whole piece of clay.

Bull’s eye canes are one of the basic elements often used in creating more complex canes when making polymer clay jewellery. Alternatively the cane can be sliced to create pretty flat, round beads. This tutorials show the different steps in the process in making a bull’s eye cane.