All About Jewelry-Making Wire
Learn the basics of jewelry-making wire, including wire shape, hardness and what wire to use in your projects.
Wireworking Resources
Perfect the Art of Creative Wireworking
You'll love browsing our wire working tutorials, instructions, and hundreds of wire wrapped design inspirations. Whether you want to create a simple wrapped loop or a fascinatingly intricate design, you'll find everything you need right here.
How to Use Banding Pliers
Wyatt, a special guest from Beadalon explains how to use banding pliers to create your very own wire bezel and bail for a crystal marquise-shaped pendant. It's not as hard as it seems! Watch and you'll see!
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Jewelry-Making Wire: Non-Precious Metal, Colored and Steel Wires
Learn about different types of non-precious jewelry-making wire—copper, niobium, aluminum, memory wire and more—and how to use each metal.
Basic Wire-Weaving Techniques
Want to get into wire weaving? This how-to video will teach you how three basic wire-weaving patterns.
How-To Wire Wrap a Cabochon Setting
Wire wrapping is a great way to display cabochons that don't fit in a premade bezel. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions to make wire wrapping a breeze.
How to Make Jewelry Findings with Wire
In this video, you'll learn how to make your own ear wires, jump rings, head pins, eye pins, clasps, bails and more.
Forming Wire Coils
Create wire coils with tools, gadgets and forming devices designed to make consistent coils for limitless jewelry-making. Have fun choosing from all the different wires to then make different coils.
Using Banding Pliers to Wire Wrap a Crystal Passions® Fancy Stone
Banding pliers are an essential tool for wireworking; learn how to use them to wrap stones in this informative video by Wyatt White.
Featured Design Inspiration
Swirls of Stones
Delicate wire curls wrapped with shimmering crystals and pearls form an elegant pair of wirework earrings. The soft pink hues of the beads stand out against sterling silver wire swirls.
Wubbers® Pliers
Patti Bullard has invented a better set of tools, and jewelry makers are beating a path to buy her line of Wubbers pliers.
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Wirework Cat Earrings
Fuchsia Zebra Wire™ spirals into playful, captivating cats in these radiant earrings. Endless possibilities for wirework creations await your creative touch.
Single-Strand Necklace
Craft a dreamy necklace that captures the essence of the sea, with shimmering cream pearls and golden topaz beads swirling in delicate gold and silver wire.
Cuff Bracelet
A slightly asymmetrical design gives this stunning cuff bracelet a modern edge.
Single-Strand Necklace
No drill holes? No problem! Check out these free, step-by-step instructions to learn the art of wire wrapping and create stunning pendants like this one.
Earrings
The copper ParaWire™ perfectly complements dragon blood jasper in these wire-wrapped earrings.
Single-Strand Necklace and Earrings Set
Indulge in the feminine allure of this necklace and earring set, featuring swirls of copper wire, sparkling Crystal Passions® beads and chatons and natural lapis lazuli.
Cuff Bracelet
Blue Zephyr is the result of an artist's creativity in full freeform. Adding twists, turns and components as the heart desired, Cyndi Salata created an intricate cuff bracelet.
