How To Make Crystal Cage Necklace

How to wire wrap a rock using the simple spiral cage technique. If you have a pretty gemstone or piece of sea glass without a hole, only want to turn it into a necklace, this is the easiest way to do it!

Quite a few people have asked me recently how to utilize stones without any drill holes in their jewellery making. Virtually ways involve wire and this spiral cage is the near directly-forward. All y'all need is some wire and your pliers!

You volition need:

-0.8mm wire

-round nose pliers

-chain nose pliers

-gemstones

-necklace to put your new pendant on!

How to:

ane.To work out approximately how much wire y'all will need, measure your stone at its longest length, and then multiply by ten. So this piece of rose quartz is about two.5cm/1 inch so means I need a 25cm/x inch length of wire. If you have a stone that is much smaller, say just 1cm long, you may want to use 0.6mm wire. Like wise, if your stone is bigger yous can go up to 1mm if needed.

ii.We are going to make a shape that looks a bit similar a snail shell; a tight coil in the middle, opening out wider as it goes effectually. To  commencement, brand a loop at i terminate of the wire by gripping right at the tip with your circular nose pliers and rolling the wire away from you until you have a loop.

3.Have your chain nose pliers and hold the loop you have simply fabricated flat in the jaws. Push the stop of the wire neatly around the outside of the loop, moving a picayune at a fourth dimension until you have gone circular twice.

4.At present we are going to make the spiral open up out a bit by gripping both the loop and a fleck of the wire earlier pushing the wire around. Go slowly, trying to do to much in one get volition make angles rather than a overnice curve. Keep going until you are halfway forth the length of your wire. At this betoken you want your spiral to be as wide as your gemstone, then it will fit.

5.We are going to repeat steps ii – 5 with the opposite end of the wire, rolling your initial loop in the other direction, so you end upwardly with something that looks like a curly letter S.

6.Bring the ii spirals towards each other slightly, then using chain nose pliers pull the tight whorl in the center of one spiral up so it opens out similar a beehive. Repeat with the other side.

vii.Slide your gemstone in the spiral and bring the two halves together, caging the stone inside. No stone will be as round as the cage, and then use your fingers to dispense the wire to fit the rock and arrange the coils evenly.

viii.Make a loop at one end of the muzzle by using your chain nose pliers to lift upward one of the inner-well-nigh coils

9.Your pendant is at present gear up to hang from a necklace!

This is just i method yous can use to wire wrap a rock. I plan making more tutorials for different techniques. So if there is one yous are interested in, feel gratis to comment beneath or message me on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook! Desire even more than modern craft, creative inspiration and lovely ready-fabricated jewellery? Sign upwards to my monthly 'Making, Creating and Little Adventures' email! Happy Making!

Source: https://makeandfable.com/2016/08/wire-wrapping-a-stone-spiral-cage/

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