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Jewlery-Findings
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Jewlery-findings are ready made metal parts used to finish a necklace, bracelet, ring and earrings.

These components can also be beaded, made in wood, clay and other various material. As we are focusing here on how to make jewelry using quick and simple techniques, we will mostly refer to clasps, cones, hooks for earrings, spacer bars, ring supports, neckwires, and chains you can find easily in the jewelry market.

This article refers only to supportive, backing jewelry parts.

All other types of findings are referenced in the "findings directory" here.

Let's go back to our jewlery-findings.

❋To finish a necklace or a bracelet, you will need a clasp.
A clasp has two parts: the clasp itself and its attaching part. Each part being attached on each side of your jewelry.
The first picture shows lobster and spring ring clasps. These are popular styles that you can find in different finishes and sizes. They are used with jump rings, split rings or chain tabs in the same finishes to make a complete clasp.
As you can see in the picture, you can use a "sister hook" (the flat part with a big and a small hole) as the attaching part. It is secure and easy to use, we use it all the time.

The second picture shows toggle clasps and S hooks. S hook comes generally with a closed jump ring.
These types of closures are normally used for a one strand jewelry.

❋For a multi strand necklace, you need to use a clasp specially crafted for multi strands jewelry: they have two, three or more loops solder to the clasp itself.

❋ Cones can also be used to finish a a multi strand necklace neatly. You can also use cones to make tassels with chain or seed beads for example.

❋For multi strands necklaces or bracelets, you will certainly need to use spacer bars prevent your jewelry from tangling.
They exist in 4, 6 or 8mm with 2, 3, 3, 4, 5 and even 9 holes!

❋Concerning earwires, you will find hundred of styles!
Among them, curved back earlier, French hoops (round hooks), leverback earwires, clip ons, screwback, clip on with half ball, fancy or classy earstuds…
Scroll down and look at the first earring design with pearl. The Balinese earwires are beautiful and really match and enhance the earrings. By the way, these type of earrings are really made in a snap!

❋You can also find ready made chandelier earring part or hoops with loops. These different armatures open doors for amazing designs! Use them!

❋Ring supports will allow you to glue buttons, charms or flat beaded beads for fun and colorful "cocktail rings".

❋ With chains, you can make nice and unusual jewelry.

❋What else? With a neckwire you can add a pendant and make a necklace in a snap, with tassels, you can embellish a pendant, a bracelet and of course earrings!
Tags are used to be glued on the back of a flat piece to make a pendant or you can glue a little cabochon and use it as a charm for example.

If you are looking for really exquisite and not so expensive silver findings, click here.
These cute charms and clasps are really charming!

˜Here are few examples of jewlery-findings ˜