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Old 2007-12-29, 2:24pm
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Default Wire Wrapped Ribbon Ends

I did several of these, and used some for jewelry here, and I really like the look of them, especially on necklaces not long enough to go over the head without a clasp. This makes it really easy to pop your own clasp on. For those not interrested in doing it yourself, I am going to go ahead and list the ones I made and have left in the sale rack. Though this this may seem relatively simple, hopefully someone will find all the photos useful.

Ok here goes.

This is what it looks like with a clasp.



This is what it looks like w/o a clasp.



This is a close-up of one end.



Step one. Take about and inch and a half to two inches of ribbon at the end, fold it into a "W" shape, lengthwise.



Step Two. Take that length of fold ribbon, and fold about half an inch or so over.



Step Three. I take a study hook clasp I made and slide it into the folded part.



Step Four. And then I take a needlenose plier and a length of 26G half hard sterling wire and cinch it as shown here.



Step Five. Then I take the hook and stick it through some heavy copper wire I have anchored to my trusty kitchen chair or other heavy object.. there's about a bazillion ways to do this..



Step Six. With everything anchored I pull it very taught with a really good grip on the plier. It's important that the plier doesn't slip as the silk and wire can be marred. Take the free end of the wire with the other hand and wrap the silk.





This is what you get at this point. I point my free ends inwards towards the center of the wrap, so when you tuck them in after trimming,they tuck the direction I want them to.



Step Seven. I grab a pair of flush cutters with the flat side to the coil/wrap and trim off the free ends as close to the work as possible, without undoing any of the work or cutting the silk.



This picture shows them trimmed off.



I feel it's important to tuck in the wire ends so that they don't scratch people's necks while being worn. Here's a pic of the offenders before being tucked.



Step Eight: Before I tuck in my wire ends, I take my flush cutters (scissors would be fine) and cut off the extra silk left sticking out after wrapping.



Step Nine. I take a pair of crimping pliers, since they have a nice rounded shape inside already, and lay them against the offending wire end, and only apply just enough pressure to tuck in just that part.

After all is said and done, hopefully the ends of the ribbon look just like this.



Thanks to those in the other post with the ribbon dying ideas. This has been fun.

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Old 2007-12-29, 2:38pm
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Cool idea! Thanks for the tut!
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Old 2007-12-29, 3:22pm
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Thanks for the tut! Good tips.
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Old 2007-12-29, 6:10pm
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Thanks for the tut, I just love the look of these.
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Old 2007-12-29, 6:13pm
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Thanks for the tut. Great pix and very easy to understand.
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Old 2007-12-29, 10:15pm
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I would not have thought of this and I love it. Thanks.
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Old 2007-12-29, 10:35pm
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That's fantastic - thanks so much for sharing!
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Old 2007-12-30, 8:26pm
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Thanks Shari! I'll give it a try.
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Old 2007-12-30, 9:02pm
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I think it's neat that so many people like the way they look with the wire on them. I wasn't sure it was going to go over well. I didn't realize the stipulations for adding something to the sale rack, so I set up an etsy store today. That was a lot easier than I expected. I'd love to see how it looks on the serged ribbons.

Added.. Geeze, I'm such a dork.. LOL .. after all of that I just realized I could have added to the garage sale thing. I knew I saw that somewhere...
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Old 2007-12-30, 9:58pm
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Great idea and thanks for the tutorial.......
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Really like the great step-by-step instructions and photos.

Now I can do something with the the ribbons and threads I have staring at me and me not sure quite what to do with the ends......
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Old 2008-01-02, 2:59pm
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Very nice! I love the close up pictures!
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Old 2008-01-02, 7:52pm
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well that's so easy now I guess I gotta make something with my ribbons!
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Old 2008-01-22, 7:02am
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Nicely done! I missed this when it was originally posted

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Great tut thank you very much!
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