How to make a wire ring?
Making wire jewelry is very interesting, but very difficult. The creator of jewelry beauty will have to show maximum calmness and concentration. The first attempts to make a wire ring are not always successful. Sometimes a person has to spend more than one meter of this consumable, needless to say about the time spent. But the result obtained in the end will make it clear that everything was not done in vain.
Each wire jewelry, especially handmade rings, turns out to be unique, and most importantly, they have no analogues.
Tools and materials
Surely every person, especially the fair sex, weaved beads in childhood. Threads or thin fishing line served as the basis for such decorations. After some time, when the experience of weaving bracelets reached its highest point, the girls changed their qualifications and began to create jewelry such as earrings and rings. Someone even managed to create real jewelry sets. Here, a more durable material was used as a basis - wire. In terms of the color scheme of consumables, the choice stopped at the copper version, since this shade vaguely resembled gold.
Today, not only children and adolescents, but also adults are engaged in the creation of wire jewelry.... Skilled craftsmen have managed to turn a children's hobby into a worthy business. Queues for them are lined up a month in advance. Other craftsmen make wire jewelry in their free time. But it is worth noting that amateurs and professional craftsmen give more preference to creating rings. As they claim this type of jewelry is very interesting to work with... First, creating the perfect shape.Secondly, creating incredible designs. But to make exquisite beauty, wire alone is not enough.
You will need to acquire a few more tools and materials, thanks to which the work is only a pleasure.
You will definitely need a ruler, metal scissors. If there are none, you can use the nippers from the manicure set. Round nose pliers or narrow nose pliers are also useful. Ideally, buy average sandpaper. A hard nail file is suitable as an analogue. The last thing you need is decor.
Master Class
In an age of technological progress, when most of human labor is replaced by robotic technology, the demand for handmade jewelry is increasing. Even in schools, during labor lessons, teachers tell students about the technique of weaving floss, embroidery, teach them patchwork and many other types of creative directions that require the use of fingers.
Schools do not teach how to create wire jewelry, but everyone can learn about this type of creativity. It is enough to read a few articles from the Internet and sign up for a live master class. There, a specialist will tell in more detail how to make a beautiful and graceful ring, even from the thinnest wire. The master will provide diagrams of unique products that everyone can repeat at home.
But before you get acquainted with some master classes, you need to know the rules for determining the size of the ring:
- you can measure with a wire wrapping it around the circumference of the base of the finger;
- you can use a centimeter;
- you can take a regular thread.
If the decorative insert of the ring is a stone, you will have to add ½ of its diameter to the measured size.
Well, now you can start master classes, thanks to which everyone will be able to understand the technique of work.
Today a man, wishing to please his beloved woman, is ready to do any thing: he is ready to fill her with flowers, soft toys, sweets, clothes. Craftsmen-jewelers, in turn, suggest trying to make a ring from the wire that holds the champagne cork. The principle of creating jewelry is very simple and does not require any special tools:
- first, the wire should be straightened;
- then bend it in half;
- then you need to put the central part of the wire under your finger, go around its circle and start rolling the tips in the form of a rose from above;
- the remaining ends can be trimmed or wrapped in a ring shape.
Another way to please your beloved woman is to make a ring with an inscription. For example, bend the word "love" out of the wire. The process of work is somewhat more complicated, but the finished result will win the heart of the second half:
- using round-nose pliers, bend the wire in the shape of the letter l;
- then the free end of the wire is wrapped in a ring - the letter o;
- then the free end of the wire is carefully bent into a tick, symbolizing the letter v;
- round-nose pliers will help to finish the word, wrapping the wire in the shape of the letter e;
- the finished word is applied to the finger and bent according to the female size;
- the excess wire is cut off, leaving a small piece that secures the letter l.
Bijouterie with large stones is considered an undoubted classic. Such wire rings can be decorated with agate, cubic zirconia and any other colored decor option. As an example, it is proposed to consider a master class on creating a wire ring with turquoise.
For work, you will need copper wire, a turquoise bead and a deadbolt. Any object identical to the circumference of the finger will do as its counterpart. The process consists of the following steps:
- first you need to bite off a piece of wire and pass it through the hole in the bead;
- lead the copper ends from the back of the decorative element, then bend them in the form of a cross;
- several turns should fix the position of the base of the ring;
- then it is necessary to wrap the ends of the wire around the crossbar, bring them into the loops and squeeze.
Today wire products are very popular.... And we are talking not only about jewelry, but also about the household sphere. Sometimes craftsmen are ordered to cut rings for fishing tackle, a little less often they are asked to make rings for curtains. From the household sphere, requests are most often received for making rings of various shapes for creating crafts. For a craftsman from whom wire products are ordered, this is a definite plus. He has the necessary equipment and without the slightest exertion makes a decent profit. But you can bend the rings yourself - just make one interesting device.
- A tube with a diameter of 2.5 cm is taken.A piece 6 cm long is sawn off from it.
- On one side, along the tube, an end cut is made with a length and width of 4 * 0.5 cm.
- Now you need to make the base. Its size is 4 * 12 cm.
- Holes for fasteners are drilled at the corners of the plate.
- The tube is placed on the plate in a vertical position with the sawn end up.
- Then both parts are connected by welding.
- On the workbench, a free space is selected for the curler, after which it is screwed to it.
One hour of time spent on making the device gives a person the opportunity to create wire rings with his own hands. The twisting process itself is very simple. In the cut of the tube, the end of the wire is fixed, and the winding begins. When the required number of turns is found on the tube, the resulting spring is removed from the devices and, using nippers, is divided into separate rings.
They need small rings to craft their outfits. Some need to weave chain mail, others to decorate a suit. Women even order outfits from wire rings.
Decor options
Surely many will agree that hand made jewelry is highly valued today. Here, for example, is an elegant, bright, but at the same time neat and modest ring, decorated with pearls. It took several days to create this masterpiece. The wire has neat bends, full symmetry is visible, which novice craftsmen cannot observe.
The second option for the decorative design of a wire ring will be more to the taste of a representative of informal subcultures. It may seem that the wire is simply overlapped, but it is not. If you look closely, the interior has a perfect flatness that does not chafe or scratch the skin. By the way, with this design, hiding the ends of the wire is as easy as shelling pears.
Vintage beauty with a special decoration. This project is very complex, but very interesting. It took only a few copper wires of different thicknesses, a couple of beads and the patience of the master.
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