Adding an already baked piece of clay into unbaked clay.

Green barrel bead using hard-in-soft inlay (with gaps)

Hard-in-soft inlay barrel bead In this tutorial I played around with hard-in-soft inlay.  I wanted to make an interesting bead with gaps around the bull’s eye cane. I've been trying to be more disciplined with my work in the past few months, so I look for any excuse to experiment when I write tutorials. This is not a technique that you’d use for everything.