Eni Oken tutorial - orange.pdf - wire wrapping - miss-S

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Tutorial 2: Circular Orange pendant

By Eni Oken ... www.enioken.com

This tutorial shows how to create a pendant

constructed over a circuar armature fabricated with

18 ga (or 16 ga) wire. Over this armature, 28 ga

wire is used to attach several beads using three

different methods.

Step 1: Shape the circle

Using 18 gauge wire, a simpe 0.5 inch circe was

constructed by wrapping it around a wooden dowel

or a thick knitting neede. A tail of approximatey

0.35" was eft for the oop.

Step 2: Form the loop

Using the round nose piers, create a smal oop at

the top of the circe. Notice how a smal portion of

the circe is overapped. The direction of the oop and

the circe are aso important, the overap shoud

remain to your eft if you are right handed (and

reversed if you are eft handed).

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Step 3: Flatten the shape

Using a chasing (ba-peen) metaic hammer over an

anvi, fatten the entire piece a bit, making the

structure more rigid. Open the shape a bit to have

access to al portions of the armature.

Step 4: Re-shape the armature and attach thin

wire

Cut a 2 feet ong piece of 28 ga wire (you can use 26

aso, but its a bit trickier to work and beads need to

have arge hoes). Attach the wire to the eft of the

oop (if you are right-handed) by coiing it around

the armature two or three times. You wil work in

cockwire direction.

Step 5: String in two beads

Sip in one arger bead (shown in copper) and one

smaer bead (shown in siver). Take the wire back

through the arge copper bead, forming a oop.

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Step 6: Pull tightly to form a picot

Now comes the tricky part -- the wire must be pued

tighty, without etting the beads oose. To do so,

hod the two beads as cosey as possibe to the

armature with your eft hand, whie puing the wire

tighty with your right hand (if you are right handed).

This forms a picot, which is paced usuay around

the edge of an armature. Pass the wire behind the

armature, to form the next picot.

Step 7: Form the second picot

AForm another picot right next to the first one. Keep

them as cose together as possibe.

Step 8: Form picots around the entire circle

Form picots around the entire edge of the circe. It is

preferabe to have an even number of picots

however, it is not fundamenta. Sometimes the size

of the armature (as in this case) does not aow for

even picots.

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Step 9: Start attaching the second row of beads

When you reach the beginning, start a new ayer of

beads: string in one pearl and wrap the wire around

the armature, sipping it between the oop and the

first picot and puing tighty.

Step 10: Attach another pearl

String in another pearl and wrap the wire around the

armature, sipping it through the first and second

picots.

Step 11: Complete a full circle of pearls

Attach a ful circe of pears around the armature.

Depending on the size of the pears, you may require

ess pears than copper beads. To compensate for

the smaer size of the inner circe of pears, skip one

or two copper beads. When you reach the beginning,

coil the wire around the armature once or twice to

secure it.

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Step 12: Add a third row of beads

Start attaching the smaer seed beads in between

the pears and copper beads. String in 4 or 5 seed

beads (amount depends on size of seed beads and

pears) and sip the wire carefuy through the oop of

the pear. Genty pul the wire tight.

How many seeds are required? You shoud form a

nice, rounded scaop shape around the pear. If you

added too itte or too much, dont worry: you can

compensate on the second and ast scaops by

adding or subtracting one seed bead.

Step 13: Form a full row of scallops

A ful row of beads was then attached to the

armature.

Step 14: Attach the center bead

To finish up the scaoped seed bead row, coil the

wire around the armature a few times, taking the

wire to the very top, under the oop. Sip the arge

focal bead to the center and attach the wire to the

bottom portion of the armature by coiing a few

times.

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