How to Make Wire Wrapped Beaded Bracelets
Making your own jewelry is a great way to express your creative side. Imagine how exciting it could be to choose your own beads and jewels and design your pieces exactly to your taste and desire.
Making jewelry is not difficult or time consuming. With a small collection of beads and a few tools, you could easily create different pieces of jewelry.
Using wired beads is especially striking in jewelry because of the added interest of the extra wire around the beads. Even better, many beads can be bought pre-wired so all that is necessary is to add them to your projects.
Here are simple instructions for making a wire-wrapped beaded bracelet.
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Things You'll Need
- Wired beads Filler glass beads (same size as wired beads) 1-inch long eye pins Closure clasp 2 Jump rings Needle nose pliers Round nose pliers Wire cutters
Instructions
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Make Wire Wrapped Beaded Bracelets
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Attach a jump ring to one half of the closure clasp with the needle nose pliers. It does not matter which half of the clasp is used first. Do not close the jump ring yet.
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2
Attach a wired bead to the open jump ring. Completely close the jump ring with the needle nose pliers.
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Open the eye of an eye pin and attach it to the other side of the wired bead. Close the eye of the eye pin tightly.
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Add a glass bead to the eye pin and trim the eye pin off to leave approximately 3/8 inch extending beyond the glass bead.
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Make a loop on the other end of the glass bead with the extending length of eye pin and the round nose pliers. Before completely closing this loop, add another wired bead. Close the loop tightly with the pliers.
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Repeat Step 3, Step 4 and Step 5 until the bracelet is the desired length.
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Add a jump ring to the final bead and attach the other half of the closure clasp to the jump ring before closing it. Close the jump ring to finish the bracelet.
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