Free Tutorial: Manually Twisted Wire

Ever create a wire jewelry piece that ends up with many (excess) wires of the same wire size, but you don't feel like trimming it? I did, and I found that manually twisting those wires and use it as embellishment as an effective way. This reduce wire waste and add new inspirations.

Here I will show you step by step the basics on how to create clear and even manually twisted wire. This technique is applicable to almost any size of wire (18ga-28ga) and any length, also for wires in closed spaces. All you need is your hands, with very little help from nylon jaw pliers, so you can do this anytime anywhere.

If you like to create twisted wire to get the look of "filigree", this manual technique allows you to create different looks of the twisted wire depending on how far the angle between the 2 wires that you choose while twisting.

I also included some pictures of pieces created or embellished with manually twisted wire for more inspirations.

Find the link of the file attachment at the last part of this page to download the PDF file of the Manually Twisted Wire tutorial. Consist of 13 steps in 7 pages, file size: 588 kb.

I hope you enjoy it and make a great use of this very easy technique!
Keep smiling, keep shining, keep creating!

Gaby

Attachment: Tutorial Manually Twisted Wire by Christe Jewelry.pdf