How to Make a Swirl for Wire Jewelry

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Today we're going to learn how to make a basic swirl. To make a basic swirl, you're going to want to have a little bit more pliable of a wire. You're going to grab your wire at the end and start making that same curving motion that we've been doing. Each time you curve it around, you're going to want to kind of mash down the wire a bit. If you don't have flat based pliers, then you're going to want to use your flat wires. You may have to switch hands a bit. What you're going to do is as you're turning it around. I'll just use my flat pliers for this. As you're turning it around, you're going to use your thumb as a guide. You're just going to keep turning and turning and mushing down as you're turning. Depending on the quality of the wire or the delicacy of the wire, is how hard you're going to push. The more delicate the wire, the less hard you want to push, because then you're going to end up with marks on your swirl. Just keep going around. You can make this whirl as big or as small as you want to. You can make it as tight or as loose as you would like. Here we have a couple of different styles of swirls. This a very loose one obviously, and it can be used as a hook. Then we have some tighter ones. This can be used as a hook or a pendant holder. That’s how you make the basic swirl.

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