Beebeecraft instructions on how to make wire wrapped jewelry

Summer season is the best time to wear wire wrapped jewelry, isn't it? Wire wrapped ring, wire wrapped bail, wire wrapped cage and so on. With aluminum wires, tools of pliers, some beads, stones items to be wrapped and findings, you could actually make your personalized wire wrapped jewelry with beads decorated.

Once you have your tools, wire, and item(s) to be wrapped, you need to decide exactly how you want it to look. Beebeecraft offers various jewelry making supplies for u to make wire wrapped jewelry.

In my opinion, the more glass you have, the better, so you can experiment with the colors to see what you like the best. I think that almost any blue piece will look good on a white piece, supposing the sizes are good. Also, you need to determine which color wire to use, the silver and golden wire are common.

Make the wire wrapped ring

 

Step 1: Position Bead on Wire

After selecting the right bead you like, thread it onto your wire. Make sure that it's centered.

Step 2: Determine the Ring Size

Position the centered bead on the ring mandrel. In the normal case, you will want to start approximately one size larger than the size of the ring you want to end up with. 

Step 3: Wrap Wire Around Mandrel

Carefully wrap your wire around 3-4 times;

Step 4: Gather the Wire Underneath the Bead

Position the wires as close to the bead as possible.

Step 5: Start Wrapping the Bead

Start wrapping the wire ends around the bead in a counter-clockwise motion; each successive wrap will go underneath the previous one.

Step 6: Start Coiling the Wire

Remove the ring from the mandrel - you should have one wire end pointing up, and the other one pointing down.

Step 7: Finish the Coils

Pull the wire end up firmly with your chain nose pliers, and then continue wrapping coils around the four wires that make the ring band.

Step 8: Finish the Other Side

Step 9 Finish Your Wire Ends

Make the wire wrapped pendant

Step 1: The Loop

Just take the wire and put up to the pencil at the more or less center, and wrap around twice. Then, just twist them once or twice so the loop holds.

Step 2: Starting Off

To start off, I usually start one wire going on the back, and one on the front. For the sake of non-confusion, let's make the unfolded wire #1, and the one behind the glass that's folded, #2.

Step 3: The Wrapping

What I have done next is taken #2 and just folded it across the bottom of the white glass piece. 

Next, I took wire #1 and folded it diagonally down-right over the pink glass that I had just placed there, and then folded it around the back. 

Then, I left #2, but I took #1 and wrapped across diagonally in the opposite direction, and then back around the back. 

After that, I took wire #2 and brought it back to the loop and wrapped it around once just to hold it. So, the only thing that #2 did was go down on the back, go around the bottom tip, and back up to the top, while #1 went down across, over, up across, down across, then to the loop. 

Step 4: Finishing Off

After you get both wires back to the loop and wrapped around a few times, you need to cut the wires, usually. Cut them to the length so that the ends will end up on the back of the loop. 
Then, you need to mix the end(s) where you need to use the pliers. You just need to pinch the wire down, while rotating the pliers around the base of the loop. 
You should now have an almost complete pendant. 

There are some basic beebeecraft instructions on making wire wrapped jewelry, and you can also find the wire wrapped jewlery materials on Beebeecraft, hope they are useful for u.