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Basic Jewelry Making Instructions



Jewelry making instructions will explain through detailed pictures how to finish a necklace, bracelet, earring with the right findings. You will see how to make knots between beads or dangles for charming handcrafted jewelry.

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How-To

Stringing and finishing with Stainless Steel Coated Wire




  • Cut a piece of Tigertail or Soft Flex wire.
  • String a jump ring or a clasp and a crimp bead.
  • Pass back through the crimp bead, leave a tail.
  • With a flat nose plier, push gently the crimp bead close to the clasp.
  • Flatten with your flat nose plier.
  • String a few beads and trim with a flush cutter.


How-To

Finishing with Nylon thread or Silk thread


making jewelry using the knotting technique with an awl



  • Cut a piece of Nylon thread or Silk thread.
  • Pick up a twisted beading needle and needle on a bead tip, leaving a small tail.
  • Make a double knot, glue and close the bead tip and now :


  • Knotting with a Awl



    • I like to make the first knot close to the bead tip.
    • String a bead;
    • Make a large loop with the thread, place the awl inside the loop, hold the thread really tight against the bead (see pictures).
    • Take off the awl;
    • Continue.


    How-To

    Finishing with a cord

    jewelry making instructions: choose the right finding jewelry making techniques: desiging with findings


    • Cut a piece of cord or serpentine with a flush cutter.
    • Place the cord inside the Cord tip, flatten one side of the cord tip, then the other one with a flat nose plier.




    How-To

    Make a "bead dangle"

     bead jewelry making with softflex or tigertail (nylon covered wire) how to make a bead dangle for your jewelry

    • Among all jewelry making instructions, making a bead dangle can be useful when you don't know how to make an eye loop or you don't have the right eye or head pin, for example.
    • This bead dangle has been done with a craft chain; Cut a small piece of Nylon Coated Wire , double it, string a bead, a crimp bead.
    • Flatten the crimp bead with a flat nose plier;
    • Trim the wire.


    How-To

    Open and close a jump ring

    pliers are basics tools for jewelry making




    • Take a look at the picture; Take one plier on each hand.
    • Place the jump ring between each plier.
    • Open and close gently.

    The jump ring is a link between a clasp and a specific finding like a bead tip, a cord tip, a clasp, a loop made with a nylon coated wire...So this jump ring needs to be perfectly close otherwise your jewelry will break !

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