wire wrapping

Wire wrapping is most frequently practiced by jewelry makers and sculpture artists, but it can be used for building functional/structural pieces as well.

resources

Some resources that one could dive into more with:

• Jewelry Tutorial HQ [youtube]
  • Everything you wanted to know about jewelry wire — wire size, hardness, wire shapes, materials, and work-hardening.
    • Part 1. Wire gauge sizes
    • Part 2. Wire hardness
    • Part 3. Wire shapes
    • Part 4. Wire materials
    • Part 5. Which gauge wire for what?
    • Part 6. What is work-hardening?
    • Part 7. How to work-harden wire.
  • free online course about wire-wrapping
• Kernowcraft
  • choosing wire
  • wire size
  • work-hardening
  • (there's lots of specific projects listed on the parent page)
• Nolan McClelland of Raftark Jewelry @YouTube His jewelry is absolutely stunning, truly.
  • playlist — wire wrapping tutorials
  • playlist — wire wrapped rings
  • list of paid wire-wrapping tutorials
• Jewel School
  • wire hardness
  • wire gauges
• Zurick Designs @YouTube
  • playlist — wire wrapping tutorials
  • playlist — basic wire wrapping
  • playlist — wire wrapped earrings
  • playlist — wire wrapped rings
  • playlist — wire wrapped pendants
  • playlist — wire weaving
• wire wrapping 101, by Cooks On Gold
• YouTube — OxanaCrafts
• a paid class that looks interesting (pages associated with this class)
• (suggestions from reddit.com/r/WireWrapping)
• (list of tutorials sold on Etsy)

functional wire wrapping

For functional pieces, one of the important things to get right is 1) how hard is the wire that you start with (AKA wire temper), and then 2) how much work-hardening do you do to the wire before it's finished:

• Jewelry Tutorial HQ
  • Wire hardness explained.
  • What is work-hardening?
  • How to work-harden.
• Choosing what wire to use.