Wireworking

Wireworking

Wire is a versatile jewelry design element that may be used to connect chain or beaded links, to embellish beads, to hang pendants, or create a number of elements like head pins, eye pins, ear wires, bails, pin backs, ring shanks, clasps, or just about anything you can imagine! Wire comes in a variety of shapes, gauges, and types of metal.  See these pages for specific types of wireworking and related techniques:

• Coil
• Hammering
  
• Head pins
• Jump rings
• Simple loop
• Spiral
• Oxidizing
• Wire bail
• Wirewrapped loop

Related free articles:

• The 7 Best Tools for Working with Wire
• Learn to Create Wire Jewelry on a Budget
• Pros and Cons of Using Craft Wire for Jewelry
• 3 Quick Tips for Dealing with Wire Worts

Related books and magazines:

• All Wired Up by Mark Lareau
• Easy Wire
• Getting Started Making Wire Jewelry by Christine Ritchey and Linda Chandler
• Step by Step Wire Jewelry
• Wire Style by Denise Peck
  

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