How to Make Wire Jewelry: 4 Beginner Wire Wrapping Tutorials

There is a wide variety of ways to make jewelry, from simply stringing beads, to weaving jump rings into chainmail. Each jewelry maker finds the materials and techniques that work best for him or her. However, if you are serious about making homemade jewelry, learning how to make wire jewelry is a skill you are definitely going to have to master. Wire and wire wrapping techniques are used in so many jewelry projects, it's almost impossible to avoid using wire. Thus it's best to learn how to make wire jewelry early on, because you are going to come across it a lot as you begin exploring jewelry projects and tutorials.

With this collection of beginner wire wrapping tutorials, you can master basic wire jewelry techniques as you make simple yet stunning accessories. Rather than trying to follow along with a dry "how to" article, the projects included in How to Make Wire Jewelry: 4 Beginner Wire Wrapping Tutorials will let you get hands-on experience with the fundamential wire jewelry techniques. You'll master skills like making wire loops, stringing beading wire, and simple wire wrapping as you follow along with these free jewelry tutorials.

How to Make Wire Jewelry: 4 Beginner Wire Wrapping Tutorials

1. Beginner Wire Wrap Earrings - This tutorial is the perfect place to begin your wire jewelry making journey. As you make these simple wire earrings, you'll learn basic skills like how to make wire-wrapped loops and how to make your own wire head pins. These fundamental wire jewelry techniques will come up again and again as you explore different jewelry projects, and they are extremely handy and essential skills to have, so it is definitely worth your while to make these wire earrings.
   
    
2. Hoop Dreams Beaded Earrings - Though this is another tutorial for making wire earrings, it is quite different from the first. This wire jewelry project will show you a technique for forming your own wire hoops, as well as how to finish off the hoops and attach them to ear wires. You get two projects in one with this tutorial; the wire wrapping techniques demonstrated here can also be used to make a pendant.
   
   
    
3. Wire Crystal Necklace - One of the most essential wire wrapping techniques to learn is how to make a wire pendant. There are many very elaborate ways to wire wrap a pendant, but this beginner project just begins to get your feet wet with the most basic wire wrapping techniques. Once you learn how to wire wrap a focal bead with this technique, you'll be able to turn most anything into a pendant.
   
    
4. Glass Pearls and Crystals Bracelet - This bracelet pattern does not technically use wire wrapping techniques, but it is still an important and essential skill to master. This tutorial demonstrates the basic steps behind using wire to string beads. It also explans how to finish off a beaded strand with a crimp bead. Once you learn how to make wire jewelry like this, you'll be able to make beaded bracelets and necklaces of all kinds.

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