Round Loops and Spirals: Free Tutorial by Fee
Jewelrylessons.com is one of the best places online to find jewelry making tutorials and interact with other jewelry artists, especially wire wrapped jewelry artists. One of my favorite tutorials from the site teaches how to make perfectly round loops, and how to turn those lovely perfect circles into more attractive spirals than those that can [...]
How to Make Simple Loop Links and Rosary Style Chains
Once you’ve mastered how to make simple loops, you will find it easy to make simple loop links and rosary style chains. For this exercise you will need Several eye pins made from 1 1/2 or 2-inch lengths of 20 gauge dead soft wire. The starting lengths of the wires (before they were made into [...]
Marketing Your Jewelry Business with Facebook
The New York Times has a helpful article today about how to market small businesses using Facebook. Some key points, as it relates to jewelry artists: Use a “page” rather than your personal profile for your small business marketing. People will become your “fans” rather than your “friends,” and allow you to use your personal [...]
How to Make a Simple Loop and Simple Loop Eye Pins
The simple loop is the most fundamental “cold connection” in the wire wrapped jewelry maker’s arsenal. Very simply, it is made by turning the end of a piece of wire into a loop. These little loops have very important uses, though, from linking beads together to form rosary-style chains to attaching the dangly bit of [...]
