How To Make Silver Wire Jewellery

Beading design and patterns and crimping techniques and silver wire working methods  are the cornerstone of unique homemade silver wire jewellery. Handmade beaded silver wire jewellery is an expression of individual creativity whether it is in the form of necklaces, bracelets, pendants, brooches, earrrings. Each piece is tailored to be unique and reflect the owners personality.

Before you exercise care when creating the design of your personalised silver wire jewellery you should consider the materials to be used.  Plastic lace and velcro are frequent choices for the materials to be used in the strings. Allthough beads can come in any size and pattern with either crystal or frosted or clear or glowing styles, they all have to threaded on strings or wires.

Once each bead has been inserted on a wire, crown knots seal the beads or they are crimped by beading pliers. In this way, beads can be arranged as an even pattern on either strings or wires.  Thinner wires with gauge of 0.3mm are ideal for threading beads whereas gauges of 1mm diameter silver wire can be available as either square to be used for bracelets  or round  to be used to create loops or  what is called half-round where jewellery pieces are connected. Silver wire is categorised in gauges ranging from size 0 to 26 as is copper wire and galvanized wire.  Sterling silver jewellery endures better than fine silver jewellery. Silver wire has to be manipulated by jewellery pliers to bend and stretch and straighten jewellery or ensure the creation of round loops.

Silver wire jewellery is manufactured by crocheting and crimping wire. Essential kit required is the crochet hook to design bracelets and rings from silver wire or gold fill wire. Soft silver wire jewellery does not require beading pliers and can be manually manipulated for beading and the design of elaborate personalised jewellery.

Beading combinations determine the patterns by arrangements of colours and sizes and styles for decorative effect. When making necklaces, patterns are created by arrangements of beads. To secure the arrangement of beads on necklaces, crimping is required.

Here is a brief explanation of crimping.  To secure your wires together to a clasp you have to thread silver wire through a metal tube and then through the clasp and rethread through the clasp and metal tube back in the reverse direction. Keep both wires apart and impress oval shape. Flatten the metal tube in the centre. So now, you have two separate paths for both silver wire strings. Next, fold the metal tube back. Wires should be cut back.

Silver wire jewellery rings are made by a simple technique where two pairs of pliers will open the ring and then close and compress your silver ring design just by moving both pairs of pliers sideways apart and then reversing direction so that they pass each other.

Silver wire jewellery with beaded chains requires the creation of loops at the end. Wire should be reshaped to a 90 degree angle following the beads. Trim it all off apart from enough to twist the end of the silver wire into a tail to seal the loop. This is how you turn the loop.

Besides this, you create twisted silver wire effects by wrapping the loop. Once the bead is threaded on the wire, apply the pliers to bend the pin in a circle to create the loop then keep coiling the wire manually until the bead is reached. Trim and tuck the wire into the foundation of the loop by applying the pliers.