Jewelry wire is a relatively recent trend in fashion for making jewelry by hand. When working with wire, many ideas can be brought to life using a minimum of tools.
Instructions
Step 1
Working with wire is not as easy as it might seem: although you need a minimum of tools, you need to develop accuracy and precision. They make a variety of products from wire: key rings, bracelets, pendants, rings, earrings, pendants. Wire is also used in the interior: graceful lampshades, candlesticks are woven from it, and jewelry boxes are decorated. In order to make certain things, you need to get acquainted with what gauge the wire is and what it is used for. The American Wire Gauge is used to measure the diameter of the jewelry wire, the unit of measurement is denoted as "ga". The lower the number, the thicker the wire and vice versa. The hardness of the jewelry wire also varies. Hard is used less often, more often they take semi-hard and soft.
Step 2
Very often they confuse art and jewelry wire, since at first glance they are identical. Artistic wire is much cheaper and differs from the composition of jewelry. It can be enameled, with a colored coating, or copper, which is most often used by novice craftsmen, is an inexpensive and with good properties material for practice. Using various techniques, such as patina, craftsmen create real masterpieces from copper wire. Galvanized wire, which has a matte silver color and excellent properties, is also excellent for practice. Silver-plated and gilded wire also belongs to artistic, micro-coating applied to it by electroplating, it is thin and therefore has the disadvantage of rapid abrasion. All these types of wire are often considered jewelry, but they are not such, which does not negate the high artistic value of products made from such wire.
Step 3
It is the jewelry wire that includes such a wire, in which the content of precious metals is very high. It can be silver wire with a silver content exceeding 92%, or silver with gold plating. Jewelry wire also ranges in hardness from soft to hard. The most expensive and rarely used is gold wire; wire with 99% silver is also rarely used. Copper and brass wire with gold and silver plating is used more often, and its cost allows beginners to work with it who want to try their hand at precious metals. It lends itself easily to any kind of processing, including soldering, which makes it an excellent option for making jewelry.
