Quick Picks: Install Coat Rack Pegs
 
Sign In Sign Up — It's Free!

All About Basic Wire Jewelry

You are viewing an Expert Village Video Series:

Learn about wire jewelry, different types of accents for wire jewelry and more with expert wire jewelry making tips and advice in this free online crafting video series.

There are 26 videos in this series:
Email Series
Views: 10,149 Videos in Series: 26

Tags: tools, jewelry, silver, gold, costume, diamonds, gems, boxes, stores, sterling, rubies, emeralds

Email 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 Melissa Weeks will show you how to make wire jewelry. She will teach you about pendants, wire, clasps, how to make earring hooks, and all about circle, swirl, and triangle accents for bracelets and necklaces. She will also show you the different types of headpins, teach you about bracelet and necklace length, and teach you how to insert beads in to different wire shapes for jewelry. She will teach you all about crimping beads, attachment bars, and jump rings before showing you how to make wire jewelry by coiling wire and using pliers to coil wire. Melissa will even show you how to pick beads for your wire jewelry!

About the Expert

Expert: Marissa has been making jewelry since she was 13 years old. She was an apprentice with wire jewlery in Monterrey, Mexico in 2003.

Watch these related videos

Crafts Ads
Read these related articles
See more articles