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How to Wire-Wrap Briolette Gemstones: A Photo Tutorial
1) Start with about 3 inches of wire and a briolette. You only need three tools: needle nose pliers, chain nose pliers, and flush cutters. I use regular hardware store wire cutters (shown at top) for any metal other than sterling/fine silver or gold fill.
2) Put the wire through the briolette hole so that it’s fairly centered. Gently pull up on ends of the wire evenly.
3) Continue bringing the wires together until they cross. Slide your finger down between the crossed wires until the “x” is about 2-3mm above the tip of the gemstone.
4) Take your needle nose pliers and squeeze then at the “x” in the wires. This will bend then at the crossing point.
5) With your chain nose pliers, hold the triangle portion that is left just above the top of the gemstone.
6) While holding the chain nose pliers with one hand, use needle nose pliers in the other hand and grab the end of one of the wires.
7) Bend the wire to a 90-degree angle so that it’s perpendicular to the remaining wire, and begin wrapping it around the upright remaining wire 2-3 times.
8] Wrap from as close to the chain nose pliers as possible, upward away from the briolette.
9) Clip the wire off close and press the end in with your chain nose pliers.
10) Make a 90-degree angle in the remaining wire, about 2mm above where the wire-wrapping ends.
That space is where the rest of the wire-wrapping will go.
11) From that right angle, make a circle (loop) with your needle nose pliers.
12) At this point, you can grab the wire tail with your fingers and wrap it the rest of the way around that side of the pliers…
,,, until it looks like this.
CONTINUED IN NEXT POST...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST...
13) Use your chain nose pliers to hold the loop.
14) Take the remaining wire tail with your needle nose pliers and wrap it from top to bottom (from as close to the chain nose pliers as possible downward toward the briolette).
15) Clip this wire and press it in as with the previous one.
Tada!
If you want to wrap part of the gemstone, see below…
This time take a 9-inch piece of wire.
Make the “x” as before, but not in the center of the wire. You only need about one-inch of wire on the short side.
After pinching (step 4 from above), take the short end and wrap 2-3 times (continue steps 5-14 from above).
When you’ve wrapped the wire to about this point, you can release the pliers and begin holding the top with your fingers…
… as you continue wrapping the long wire tail down and down and down…
… when the wire ends, you press the tail as tightly as you can into the body of the bead.
Some people tuck the end of the wire under the wrapping, but I’ve never had great luck with that.
You can have a neat wrap like this….
… or a more chaotic wrap like this.
Have fun!
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2011-05-07, 8:50pm
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Very nice!
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2011-05-07, 8:53pm
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Thanks. I was asked in a thread in the jewelry section to do this, but it was someone else's thread and I didn't want to hijack it (in a majorly obnoxious way), so I hope it's okay to post it here. It seemed a more appropriate place.
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More than ok - very generous of you to take the time
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2011-05-07, 9:11pm
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2011-05-07, 9:46pm
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My pleasure.
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2011-05-07, 10:27pm
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This was fantastic! Thank you so much! I've always loved wire-wrapped briolettes and now they make perfect sense.
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This was fantastic! Thank you so much! I've always loved wire-wrapped briolettes and now they make perfect sense.
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Really? Wow, thanks for saying that. Now I'm very glad I made the tutorial.
Coming from a jewelry-making background, I have it in my head that everyone already knows how to do this stuff so it's extremely nice to know one of my tutorials could actually be helpful.
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That's a wonderful tutorial and very clear. I've avoided my briolettes for awhile, I'll have to break them out now and make some earrings. Thank you!
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Really? Wow, thanks for saying that. Now I'm very glad I made the tutorial.
Coming from a jewelry-making background, I have it in my head that everyone already knows how to do this stuff so it's extremely nice to know one of my tutorials could actually be helpful.
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Oh, VERY! I love briolettes but I never know how to handle them. This is just beautiful... very easy to follow and understand.
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How nice of you to take the time to photograph that and present it here.
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Thanks Laura! Very helpful. I have one follow up question - what gauge wire is that? 22 or will 20 work?
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Thanks for great tutorial!
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Thank you Laura, I feel much more confident now. I appreciate you taking the time to do this!
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2011-05-08, 6:50am
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Thanks guys.
As to guage of wire, that's all dependant on your project + the size of your bead hole.
In the demo, I'm using 26g because the holes were drilled really tiny and that's the fattest wire that would go through.
But I've done this with everything from 28g to 20g.
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That's wonderful!! I love the chaotic wrapping.
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Thank you Laura for sharing and posting the tut.
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2011-05-08, 7:25am
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That's wonderful!! I love the chaotic wrapping.
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Ha! Me too... but it came about because of my lack of confidence in the neatly wrapped version.
At least when it's chaotic, I can tuck the final tail into something.
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Great job Laura....really nice and clear instructions!
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Thanks Karen, Donna, Mikelene.
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Ohhhhhhhhhhh! Thank you so much, I have been wondering what I was going to do with the few I have.
Oh, I also thank you for giving the tear drop thingies a name! Briolette. Had some one asked me what one was, I think I may have said some type of bread not bead!
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Thanks so much Laura!!! I've seen several tutorials on briolette's...but this is the clearest and easiest to understand. I've avoided buying briolette's because I could never master this wrap. HUGS
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Ohhhhhhhhhhh! Thank you so much, I have been wondering what I was going to do with the few I have.
Oh, I also thank you for giving the tear drop thingies a name! Briolette. Had some one asked me what one was, I think I may have said some type of bread not bead!
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ha! Your post had me running to the dictionary to see what the actual definition of "briolette" is ( a pear-shaped gem cut with long triangular facets). I've been known to use words in ways other than their real or exact meaning. Heh
I think, though, that in the beginner jewelry maker industry (which is where I consider myself), the word pretty much describes most any elongatedly-shaped, faceted gemstone. That's my take on it anyway.
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Thanks so much Laura!!! I've seen several tutorials on briolette's...but this is the clearest and easiest to understand. I've avoided buying briolette's because I could never master this wrap. HUGS
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How nice to hear! Thanks.
BTW, did you hear/see... I've finally started using the rolling mill. Ha ha ha! I love it!!!
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Thanks Laura!!! I've been wanting to do the wrapped ones that have wire wrapped at the top of the briolette ... haven't had time to sit down and play to figure it out.
Thank you so much ... you saved me time and wire!!! It's even better with pics!!! Big hugs for you
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Aw, thanks, Cheryl!
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ha! Your post had me running to the dictionary to see what the actual definition of "briolette" is (a pear-shaped gem cut with long triangular facets). I've been known to use words in ways other than their real or exact meaning. Heh
I think, though, that in the beginner jewelry maker industry (which is where I consider myself), the word pretty much describes most any elongatedly-shaped, faceted gemstone. That's my take on it anyway.
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Brioche, that's why I thought of bread!
I would have done the same thing, sorry!
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