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Just listed in my shop, a one of a kind mesquite and copper cage necklace pendant, holding a piece of blue agate.
www.etsy.com/listing/468060789/blue-lace-agate-in-mesquit...
Here is the second in my series of up and coming tutorials for the wire jewelry artist. I try to keep them as "pure" wire-wrapping with no soldering so that anybody can make them without buying extra equipment. All you need is wire and tools and you're on your way!
This tutorial includes 40 steps and 68 detailed, high-resolution color photos. If you run into any problems or questions, please contact me anytime---I'm always checking my e-mail ;) I'm always happy to hear how people are doing with my instructions and whether or not it's easy to follow, so don't hesitate to give me any consructive criticism.
I will manually send your file to you, so you should expect it within 8 hours after purchase, but usually much sooner.
Three colors of silver - silver ;P, dark silver, goldfilled.
Thanks to Joanne (JoJoBell) for this siver-gold combo inspiration :)))))
This ring was an experiment created from wrapped wire sheet that I was making. You take a sheet of titanium and sandwich it between two sheets of sterling and then wrap the entire thing in a light gauge fine silver wire. Then you flux the whole thing and heat it-- very carefully-- until the wire fuses to the sheets. When you are done, you file through the wires on one of the edges until you can fold the two sterling sheets apart like an open book and remove the titanium from the inside. You then have two sheets with this wire fused in place in nice, tight rows. I don't know if anyone else was doing this-- it was before the internet-- but I came up with this on my own.
This ring is sterling and fine silver. The photo is by Doug Yaple.
My first entry in the Wire Artisans Guild’s weekly challenge!
This week, the theme was “A Mid Summer Night” to which I in my head quickly added “’s Dream” as in William Shakespeare’s play. My head overfilled with images of fairies and fauns and other forest creatures and I instantly knew what to make. A bracelet for Titania, the Queen Fairy!
The biggest challenge was to make the piece not too perfect, I just can’t see a fairy with something exact and straight. Fairies – as we all know – flutter hither and dither and I believe they use what they see, caught in flight, to adorn them selves. And as they live in the forest, I’m sure they use vines and berries and flowers to create pretty things.
~ Titania, Queen of Fairies
"Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy."
So this bracelet is made from vines with leaves, made of sterling silver that I oxidised heavily. Tiny peridot nuggets for some green, a couple of Rose Chalcedony and one Lemon Chalcedony faceted briolettes for an airy touch, a few berries of round Garnet to give a little weight and for that little extra umpf - some Garnet briolettes, both faceted and smooth.
Yes I've had these since June 2008 BUT BUT BUT I'm chosen to work with my amazing, exquisite, specially-crafted-for-Sheela-based-on-Sheela's-specifications Jennifer Morris artisan clay beauties to kickstart 2009.
The new year will begin, for me, with a series of pretties made with these.
Part of my Bordello Queen Collection.