Wire wrap earrings. - Crafts DIY jewelry

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Wire wrap earrings. Wire wrapped jewelry. Jewelry making basics. How to Make Wire Wrapped earrings. Step by step wire wrap tutorial.

Hello and welcome! I am Valeriy Vorobev.
If you’ve ever thought about learning how to wire stones to make jewelry, but didn’t know how to start, you’ve come to the right place. Making jewelry out of wire and stones is actually much easier than it sounds. By learning this technique, you can create beautiful and unique jewelry using just a few basic materials. In fact, all you need to get started is a stone, some wire, and two types of pliers. You don’t need solders and burners! We will not solder anything!

Materials needed in DIY the easy wire wrapped earrings:

Wire wrap earrings. A set of hand tools.

To make earrings, we need a bead with a hole in stone and a 1 mm (18 га) thick copper wire. You can replace the copper wire with another wire. Usually I use long pieces of wire. You can always cut off excess wire at the end of the job.

For my jewelry I use only natural wire (copper, nickel silver, bronze, brass, silver). I patinate jewelry with wire with special solutions and polish with felt circles using polishing pastes. Sometimes, so that the wire does not darken over time, I coat the metal with a special varnish.

I like to age jewelry. I also like to patinate the wire and then polish it.
There are many ways to patinate the wire. For example, the sulfuric liver can be used. You can buy and use ready-made solutions for blackening the wire.
I often use ammonia to patinate copper wire. In Russia, bottles of ammonia are sold in pharmacies. I pour ammonia into a glass jar. I hang the product over the ammonia solution. The decoration must not touch the surface of the ammonia! After a few minutes, the copper begins to darken and takes on a beautiful brown color.
Observe safety precautions while working with ammonia!