Wire Project

I love working with wire. I was very surprise at the beginning that every piece of jewelry materials can be made home, with wire. Clasp, earwire, bead caps, chain, even beads can be made with only wire. That's why I love working with wire. Your ideas flies as high as you wish. But sometimes , your limit is to find the bead store that has everything you need with wire working.

It's a bit difficult here in Germany to find wire jewelry tools. At least for me. Since all the references I've got are in English, I had some dificulties in finding German 'word' for such tools. Like Jig, what German word for Jig? I had no ideas, Until I came to the hobby store near my place, and found jewelry that I knew exactly was made with jig. Then I asked the owner, the tools to make that such jewelry. Lucky me, she knew the tools and gave me for only 10Euro. Quite cheap, instead of buying from some US retailer. I also got lucky to find wire winder that I found very perfect and easy to use on ebay, long time ago, when I started working with wire.

So, my future project is 'sharpening' my skills on wire techniques. I wish I could have some course like they had in US, but maybe later.



This bracelet, use 24G silverplated wire for bead wrapping and 22G for the chain and clasp. Using Indian hadmade glass bead and Czech Beads. The earrings use the same material, except the earwire that I purchased from somewhere.