Jewelry techniques

Making these linked 4-prong tennis bracelet collets with movement to allow for curvature. These collets, also known as 4-prong strip settings.

Get started making jewelry at home by learning how to make jump ring jewelry with this ridiculously simple yet super gorgeous technique.

We stock a wide range of high quality jewellery pliers and wire cutters to suit all your jewellery making needs. Including our handy zip up pack of pliers - perfect for beginners.

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With this jewelry lesson on binding wire techniques you are taught a foundation of good binding wire practices and tricks to speed up the soldering process.

In this blog post, I discuss a few simple wire wrapping techniques for anyone who is starting out. If you are new to wire jewelry making, you may be feeling a little lost or overwhelmed so hopefully this will help a bit. Before you get started, you should be familiar with how to make jump rings and how to make an wrapped eye loop. You can bookmark this page for easy reference OR if you are the type who prefers a PRINTABLE version of these simple wire wrapping techniques, read below for more…

Learn how to make eye pins or loops in head pins so that your handmade jewellery never falls apart. This basic jewellery making technique is like the "glue" that holds your jewellery together.

This post brought to you by Beadalon.com. Thanks Beadalon for sponsoring this post and helping me to share my love of DIY jewelry making.It’s one of the great mysteries of the universe. Well….the jewelry making universe anyway. Beading wire. This is nylon coated beading wire we are talking about. It’s flexible and used for stringing […]

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Have you ever started a project and wondered if you are using the right size of jewelry wire? There truly is a reason for the different gauge size and this post tells all about it. Perfect for be…

How to Easily Mount Gemstones Without Fancy Tools: This is something I came up with in middle school I think. I don't know if others have used it (I'm sure it's out there somewhere), but I haven't seen any instructions on mounting stones this way so I figured I'd share it with you guys :) Back in 7…

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Learn how to make a wire wrapped pendant in this DIY wire jewellery craft tutorial by Dee from Oruki Design.

I've been wanting to create this tutorial for a while and I've finally got around to it. If you're new to silversmithing then I highly suggest you check out my other tutorials; How to Make A Silver Ring Band and How To Make A Bezel Setting first because prong settings, although they look easier to make, are actually quite difficult.

Crystal Dangles Tutorial with the new Chain links that are so easy to make and can be used to make a chain, bracelet and as well as earrings...

Learn how to make natural stone jewelry and drill your own stones. List of supplies and easy step-by-step instructions.

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