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- Oct 28, 2013
Simple Tutorial on Making a 5-Strand Woven Wire Ring
Summary: A new addition to wire ring category! Details of weaving wires are completely shown in this 5-strand woven wire ring tutorial.
5-strand weaving is a simple to do! I bet the result proves to be quite good for wire ring making. Additionally, the finished woven wire ring will look distinctly handmade. Therefore, I suggest everyone to try this tutorial.
The needed things for woven wire ring:
0.8mm cooper wire
0.5mm copper wire
Flat nose plier
Wire cutter
Taper
Marker
Woven wire ring tutorial starts now:
Step 1: Make 5-strand woven pattern
1st, cut 5 pieces of 0.8mm brass wire, and all measure about 15cm;
2nd, align the wires and tape one end;
3rd, bring rightmost wire under, over, under and over the left wires;
4th, weave wires as the picture shows below.
Step 2: Finish the woven wire ring
1st, wrap woven wire around marker;
2nd, coil 0.5mm brass wire around overlapped part;
3rd, cut off excess wires.
The final look of woven wire ring is like this:
Tada! The woven wire ring tutorial is done. I highly recommend you to use 0.8mm silvery brass wire in this tutorial, because silvery color and 0.8mm size display a finer visual effect than other colors or other sizes.