Briolette Wrapping Tutorial by Contrariwise
I found a great photo tutorial demonstrating how to wire wrap briolettes and top drilled beads on the Contrariwise Ramblings blog. Top drilled beads are beads whose hole is drilled near one end of the bead rather than through the center. This technique can be used to make earrings, pendants, and anything else that requires [...]
Fancy Headpins in Six Styles – Free Tutorial by Athena Gowton
Making your own headpins is a great way to save money on supplies, and it allows you to control another design element in your work. Athena Gowton has posted a wonderful free tutorial on jewelrylessons.com that teaches how to make five varieties of headpins without a torch. She has a number of other tutorials for [...]
Connie Fox’s Swan Clasp
All you need to turn a chain into a necklace or bracelet is a clasp, and one of the best wire wrapped clasps is Connie Fox’s swan clasp (beginning on step 9). The swan clasp is as decorative as it is easy to make, and it has become a staple for wire wrapped jewelry makers. [...]
Making and Joining Wrapped Loop Links
Linking wrapped loop links is a common way of making necklaces and bracelets. This tutorial assumes that you already know how to make a wrapped loop. To make several wrapped loop links, you will need: a few feet of dead soft wire (I like 20 gauge for this purpose) several beads whose holes can accommodate [...]
How to Make a Wrapped Loop
The wrapped loop is used very frequently in wire wrapped jewelry making. It can be used to link beads together to form beaded chains or to attach dangles to other jewelry components, such as ear wires. In fact, attaching a dangle to an ear wire by means of a wrapped loop is probably the most [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
