Polymer clay jewelry – what is it and why is it unique?
Raspberries, blueberries, lemons… they look almost real, but we definitely don’t recommend eating them. 🍓
Each of these little fruits is handmade from polymer clay before becoming a necklace, bracelet, earrings, or pendant. That’s what makes polymer clay jewelry so unique – it offers virtually limitless possibilities for creating shapes, colors, and details that are hard to find in classic jewelry.
But what exactly is polymer clay, and how does a finished piece of jewelry come from a small piece of material?
What is polymer clay?
Polymer clay is a pliable material that can be shaped almost however you like before it hardens. It can be used to create both very simple shapes and tiny, highly detailed elements.
And it’s the latter that interests us most.
At BOMY, we use polymer clay to handcraft fruits and other small elements, which later become part of our handmade jewelry.
We don’t use ready-made plastic fruits. Each element must first be shaped, with its form and details refined, and then properly hardened.
That’s why two raspberries may look very similar, but they will never be perfectly identical.
And that’s exactly the point.
Polymer clay jewelry is truly handmade
The term “handmade jewelry” can be found practically everywhere today, so we want to show exactly what it means at BOMY.
The term “handmade jewelry” can be found practically everywhere today, so we want to show exactly what it means at BOMY.
We handcraft each fruit from polymer clay.
One raspberry consists of many tiny elements that must be shaped and joined together. Creating it can take around 30–40 minutes. And if we’re making a bracelet or necklace full of raspberries, it’s easy to calculate how much work goes into a single finished piece.
Only then do we join the handmade elements with the other parts of the jewelry.
That’s why handmade jewelry is different from mass-produced jewelry. Every piece represents not only a design, but also time and work carried out from start to finish by a specific person’s hands.
Why does every pendant look a little different?
If you look very closely at two of our raspberries, you’ll probably notice small differences.
One may be slightly larger. Another will have its details arranged a little differently. Blueberries also don’t come from the same identical mold.
This isn’t a product defect – it’s a natural result of working by hand.
That’s why polymer clay pendants have something that mass production cannot achieve: every piece is a little different.
We don’t want to create thousands of perfectly identical raspberries.
We prefer to create thousands of raspberries, each with its own little character.
Why did we choose polymer clay?
Because it gives us freedom.
We can imagine a raspberry and sculpt it. A blueberry? Sure. A lemon? Too. And when another slightly crazy idea pops into our heads, we don’t have to search for a ready-made element that someone else has already produced.
We can create it ourselves.
This means polymer clay jewelry can be colorful, unusual, fun, and very distinctive.
And that’s exactly what BOMY jewelry should be.
We don’t want it to be just another accessory that’s barely noticeable. We want the raspberries to look like raspberries, the blueberries like blueberries, and for someone looking at your necklace to think:
“Wait… are those RASPBERRIES?”
Yes. They are. Just don’t eat them.
Handmade jewelry that doesn’t try to be perfect
In handmade work, perfection looks a little different.
It doesn’t mean creating a hundred elements that are identical down to the millimeter. It means paying attention to each one individually.
That’s why we like the small differences between our fruits. They remind us that they didn’t just roll off a production line a moment ago.
Someone really sat at a table and sculpted this particular raspberry.
And then another.
And another.
And another…
Yes, when making a necklace full of raspberries, we sometimes start to question our own life choices.
But the result is worth it.
BOMY – because jewelry can be a little more… BOMY
We create colorful, fruit-inspired handmade jewelry because we believe that accessories don’t always have to be delicate, neutral, and “match everything.”
Sometimes they can simply be fun.
They can be colorful.
They can attract attention.
They can have raspberries.
That’s why we handcraft every polymer clay element and then turn it into jewelry that you can wear your own way.
Because if you can wear a necklace full of raspberries around your neck, why not? 🍓