Mixing it up
Learning new ways to add depth to your designs is super important when growing your jewelry business. I will never forget the first major fine art show I was accepted into and someone asked, did you make those lamp work beads..? or hey, how did you create that bracelet clasp? The responses were varied from the deer in the head lights response or coming back with that is not my focus as yet, for I would jury in with the
beaded sculptures and then strung pieces would tag along for fill in the display.
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| set-up here includes a butane torch, fire brick, tweezers, pumice and annealing pan. A bowl of water is also near by for quenching the torched wire. |
Fine silver wire, here 20 gauge was used, makes for super fast headpins formed into French hook style ear wires. The pure silver balls up when heat from a torch is applied at the wires end briefly.. creating a type of headpin. By using the fine silver instead of sterling, there is no need for a pickle, shortening time spent or labor on the process.
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| finished cooled headpins laying on pumice in the annealing pan |
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