Looping, Knotting & wire wrapping -3

Wire Wrapping

I am concluding the 3 part series with basics in wire wrapping. Wrapping Strips of wire around beads to create free form jewelry is called wire wrapping. Call it lack of of required materials or lack of patience (though it guess its mostly the lack of patience to hunt for the required materials) that I decided to stick to basics in wire wrapping. I have done the Brio, spiral wrap and beaded free form.

(Above – Free form – bead spiral)

Requirements :

– Pearls/Beads

– Wire -silver/gold/copper gauge from 18 – 22

– Nose pliers, flush cutters, mandrels

Illustration of the technique –

– Spiral Wrap