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- Dec 20, 2013
Making Wire Wrapped Turquoise Earrings within 3 Simple Steps
Summary: How to make the wire wrapped earrings with turquoise? This tutorial will show you the details about making the wire beaded earrings.
Almost all women have worn earrings with different kinds and it is possible for people nowadays to make their own earrings. Do you know how to make your own wire wrapped turquoise earrings? Just follow my tutorial and you can learn the wire beaded earrings technique quickly. Here we go!
Materials and tools for making turquoise earrings:
6 Turquoises
2 Jades
2 Acrylic beads-imitations
2 Tibetan style beads
2 earring hooks
0.5mm brass wire
Round nose plier
Flat nose plier
Wire cutter
Instructions on making wire wrapped turquoise earrings:
Step 1: Start to make the bail
1st, cut 4 inches piece of wire and slide a drop shape bead onto it;
2nd, wrap the short piece of wire around the longer piece about 3 or 4 wraps;
3rd, bend the wire toward left and then pull the wire around the round nose pliers until the loop is completely round;
4th, use your fingers to wrap the wire around the base wire down to the first wrap. Then cut off the extra wire with wire cutters;
5th, so you have created a wire wrapped triangle bail now;
6th, repeated the above steps to make the rest five bails.
Step2: Make the earring dangle
Take a wire and thread the three bails’ loops, then make a wrapped loop, an earring's dangle is finished.
Step 3: Finish the wire wrapped turquoise earrings
1st, Thread the Acrylic beads-imitations, the Tibetan style beads and the jades to the brass wire in order, and make a wrapped loop in the end for adding a earring hook;
2nd, open the wrapped loop and add the earring hook on it.
Done! It’s the final look of wire wrapped turquoise earrings
The whole process is just like this, it is so easy, right? With this wire wrapped technique you can make your own beautiful turquoise earrings with wire.