Wire is a flexible and reliable metal cord made of various materials. As a rule, copper or silver wire is used in needlework, as well as material from various alloys. The rarest is gold jewelry wire.
In order to work with the wire, you need the following tools: pliers, wire cutters, files and knives for metal, as well as small tabletop heating tools. It is better to open a workshop for working with wire in a separate room or away from the room in which the children live.
Bijouterie
The most famous way to use metal wire in hand-made is to make different types of jewelry. There are many techniques for making wire jewelry. Knitting can be called the most unusual: a multi-colored wire is strung on a metal frame in the form of volumetric beads and balls, which are then connected to necklaces and bracelets. A fairly simple technique for working with wire is considered to be tying a frame with silver or copper wire. In the process, you can add glass beads, plastic, semi-precious and ornamental stones. Jewelry of this kind looks especially impressive in a set.
Souvenirs
In addition to jewelry, small memorable souvenirs can be weaved from wire. Real craftsmen can make an image of any thing or phenomenon out of soft copper wire (very often musicians are presented with a woven treble clef, and artists - a palette and brushes). Silhouettes of light aluminum wire are very beautiful and delicate: thanks to the softness of the metal, they are easy to create and change in the process.
Houseware
Do not think that wire is only suitable for making small and impractical things. On the contrary, initially purely applied products were made from this material. For example, you can create a decorative basket, bottle holder or fruit plate from thick and strong steel wire. Thanks to additional tools and metal heating, wall hangers for clothes, decorative shelves and much more are made of wire.
Other things made from wire
One of the simplest uses for common copper wire is to decorate scrapbooking notebooks, scrapbooks, and postcards. In order to decorate a paper product, a small amount of material is enough, woven into a beautiful pattern and glued or sewn to the cover. In addition, in scrapbooking, wire is used to weave bookmarks for notebooks and albums.
Fans of fantasy literature and films can create decorative chain mail, belts and bracelets in European, Japanese or Old Russian styles from wire with their own hands. Different types of weaving are widely represented on the Russian-speaking Internet.
