How To Wire Wrap Gemstones

How To Wire Wrap Gemstones

With round nose pliers hold the wire at the bend and loop the wire tail over the the widest part the pliers and into a circle using your fingers. At this point your stone should look a bit like a lollipop with a wire stem on the bottom.


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Curve your wire wrapped section so that it roughly fits the stone along what will be the bottom curve of your wire wrap stone pendant.

How to wire wrap gemstones. Mark the middle of the bundled wire with a marker then wrap a 5 inch piece of binding wire around the middle mark. Here you can also wrap about three times. Through wire wrapping you can also secure beads to a form or even attach non bead items such as wire wrapping rhinestone cup chain onto a bangle.

String your stone along the wire all the way up to the loop. Start by cutting a piece of your 20 gauge wire and a much longer piece of your 26 gauge wire. To wire wrap a stone start by cutting 20 gauge soft wire into 6 8 inch long pieces and taping them together at the ends.

Bend the left two wires and the right two wires over the stone curving them gently so that they cross over each other in an x close to the top of the stone. Start wrapping the top by just bending the wire to the side on the right height and wrapping it around again. Or use bail making pliers for this if you have them adjust the loop shape with the pliers and complete the loop into a perfect circle.

I adjusted the position of the swirl here as well i thought it was just a bit too low. Keep wrapping tightly and you will create the coiled look that is common on many wire wrapped pieces. Many wire wrap artists follow a very orderly method for wrapping a gemstone which involves taking several pieces of wire wrapping them together into a single wide band using a smaller gauge wire and then looping that wide band around a gemstone.

Turn the loop so that it s perpendicular to the stone. Having fun with wire wrapping my favorite wire wrapping tools wire. Use flat nose pliers.

This way when you hang your pendant on your chain or cord the stone will hang straight and not sideways. Wire wrapping can be used to make a loop for joining different components together such as when creating a wrapped wire loop or wrapping a pendant. To bring the wire to the top of the stone bend it up on the back of the stone.

Hold both pieces and wrap the 26 gauge wire around the other wire pulling it tight.

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