Necessary Tools for Making Wire Jewelry

Series Summary

Do you have an idea for a beautiful necklace design? From earrings and bracelets to single stranded and elaborate multi-stranded necklaces, creating your own jewelry is fun, easy to learn, and can even be done at home. All it takes is the desire to create, the willingness to learn, and finally practicing your newly acquired craft. Making your own jewelry is a fun way to express your creative fashion talents. Whether you want to work with beads, stones, gems, metals, hemp or any other material, the basic construction methods are fairly simple. Custom handmade jewelry also makes a fine gift for birthdays or holidays.

In this free video series, our expert Amanda Weeks will show you how to make beautiful wire jewelry. She will show you the tools you will need, talk about purchasing beads, how to travel with wire jewelry, and how to make clasp loops & hooks. She will also teach you how to make a wire butterfly, swirl, and a large and small diamond shape for wire hoop earrings. Amanda will even talk about the difference between store bought and hand made earring hooks, and about recycling beads before talking about connecting your wire butterflies in a chain and how to wire wrap beads for the beautiful wire jewelry you will be making after you watch this helpful video series.

Video Transcript

"So today we are going to talk about the tools that you will need for wire jewelry making. You will start with a pair of round nose pliers. You will need a pair of flat nose pliers. You will also of course need wire. A towel so your beads don’t fly away. Beads or findings and wire cutters. Your round nose pliers are essential. That’s what you are going to need to work with the wire, to bend the wire. Also these are really cool because you can, they have got flat nose and round so it's kind of an all in one pair of pliers. You can actually cut the wire with these. These are a little hard to find but if you can find them I suggest it highly. Your flat nose pliers you are going to use to flatten the wire, these you also have an option to wrap the wire. Wire comes in varying sizes, gauges and types so we will go into that a little later. Your beads are basically by your choice. Whatever beads kind of call to you. And then a pair of wire cutters, you want to get the most, the sharpest and best quality wire cutters as possible. Finally your towel is going to keep from your beads flying all over the place and that’s your basic needs for wire making jewelry."