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How to Make Jewelry With Wire and Guide About Making Jewelry with Wire

Hammered wire:

1. Hammered wire: Nothing gives wire an artisan feel like texturing it with a few good hammer whacks. Texture also adds interest to wire and can mean the difference between a modern or contemporary-feeling piece of jewelry and a warmer, more rustic or vintage-feeling piece. Tip: Remember that if you hammer overlapping wires, it can weaken the metal where it overlaps.

2. Spiraled wire:

Rolling wire into a spiral turns a long, straight, skinny, sometimes boring material into a substantial, curvy, more interesting jewelry design element with depth and dimension. Form the wire into a pointed spiral and you have a leaf; roll into a multi-layered spiral and you have a rose like these shown here; or wire together about five spirals and you have flower petals. Spirals turn flat wire into metal shapes and three-dimensional design elements.

3. Flattened paddles

In my Bead Fest wire and metal master class with Mary Hettmansperger last August, I was introduced to the beauty and genius of paddled wire ends. Such a simple thing, hammering the ends (or even all) of the wire gives it a whole new look and creates new ways to use it in jewelry designs. It also creates "stops" that will hold other materials in place; for example, you can paddle one end of a wire pin, slide on a bead with a hole too small to slip over the paddled end, and then make a loop or paddle the other end too, to create a dangle of it. It's also fun to weave those flattened wires, over-under style, to make a woven metal piece out of just wire.

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