Weaving from wire is a jeweler to himself

From ordinary, unremarkable wireyou can create wonderful things - decorations, accessories, frames for photos, figurines, baskets and so on. Weaving from wire is an ancient art, which our ancestors perfectly mastered. When archaeological excavations, scientists often find typing belts and women's jewelry from this material. The same chain mail is nothing more than a piece of forged wire.

Wire weaving is a painstaking work,requiring persistence and perseverance. In addition to these qualities, you need a set of tools and a wire. From the tools you will need pliers, round nose pliers, nadfil, nippers, triangular file, tweezers, a small hammer, several nails of different diameters, a piece of iron with a flat surface. And also a small vice. For braiding, copper, aluminum and knitting wire with a diameter of 0.5 - 3 millimeters is used. There are beads, beads, semiprecious stones, Swarovski crystals.

Beginners are best to start working with copperwire. It is flexible, easily bends and at the same time keeps the shape well. Before starting work, the wire must be burned. It will sting the varnish covering it, the remains of insulation, and will make it flexible. Fold it with a neat loose roll and put in the flame of the gas burner. When it is red hot, dip it into cold water. For complete cleaning, the procedure can be repeated several times.

Having prepared the necessary tools and materials,it is possible to begin the netting from the wire of simple elements - rings, spirals, spools, chains. Even the most complex products consist of simple elements. Very impressive looks weaving wire, which used beads and beads. For this you can master the technique of beading. Only use a thin wire instead of a line.

The simplest method of weaving wire is a chain weave. Using this technique, the product is made up of a plurality of wire rings. They are formed on special round mandrels.

As a mandrel, a knitting needle ornail. At the nail it is necessary to cut off the cap and the sharp end. In the end of one of the edges, make a nail to fix the wire. To make single links, lubricate the mandrel with machine oil and clamp it in a vice. The end of the wire is fixed in the notch and start winding even dense rows of wire on the mandrel. The finished spring directly on the mandrel is cut with a hacksaw. As a result, you get a bunch of single links, from which you can begin to collect the intended product.

In order to obtain links from two or moreturns, the spiral is removed from the mandrel, then every two turns are separated with a knife and bite off with nippers. The ends of the link must be opposite each other. There is one more kind of links, they are like eight or the sign of infinity. In order to get such beautiful twisted links, you need to clamp two identical mandrels in the vice. The distance between them should be twice the diameter of the wire. We push one end between the mandrels and tightly wrap one of them, then stretch the wire between the mandrels and twist the second. Wind the eight between the mandrels until the wire runs out. Separate the links with wire cutters.

Chain wire braiding is suitable for the manufacture of bracelets, belts, necklaces.