The author of the work is Oksana Trukhan (Ursula Jewelry).
I want to acquaint all curious Wire Wrap (weaving from wire). I will try to describe everything in detail and touch the very exciting: how to make balls at the ends of the wire.
Instruments : Kruglogs, cliffs, booths, feet, hammer, anvil, burner for 1300 degrees, ruler, sandpaper 02, gay paste, machine oil, ammonia alcohol, bora, engraver (optional).
Protection : Construction gloves, rubber gloves, mask, glasses.
Materials : Copper wire 1.3 mm - 50 cm, Copper wire 0.8 mm - 50 cm, Copper wire 0.5 mm - 50 cm, Copper wire 0.4 mm - 1 m, beads, chewns under copper.
So, first, we need a copper wire. You can buy in online stores, you can in the form of a cable (remove isolation), and you can dig in the closet for a husband or other lord of transformers. ;) Make sure the wire is not covered with varnish, even if it is copper. Otherwise, Patina will not take. How to check? Put the gloves, take care of the handles! Jump a piece of wire through the fire - if the flame, smoke and unpleasant smell appeared, it burns varnish. Well, that's wonderful, at the same time, copper will become softer. Put a thin wire quickly, so as not to overheat. Lacuators I remove the sandpaper. Or boiling burned pieces in citric acid solution. It will remove Nagar. After lemonic acid, rinse with water and rinse in soda solution. To neutralize the acid.
We prepared the materials, now we prepare the idea: we are looking for a magic notebook. "The artist is thinking with Olіvets in the hands" - V.V. Mikhayluk. Most of my decorations are very far from the initial sketches, but thoughts are better stored on paper. Especially if this thought visits suddenly, not on time, and sorry to miss.
We begin to bend the thickest wire for the base. Do not hurry, we work on every millimeter, small margins. Do not forget sometimes taste with a sketch, well, just in case.
As a result, we should have two such high-artistic rogulins in the style of AR Nouveau. For the second earrings, the basis of the basis in the mirror image, but now they are not focused on the sketch, but on the first earrings. Just turn the workpiece from top to bottom and check very accurately.
We beat off a hammer on what you think. But it is on anvil that will make it more convenient. In order not to wake the neighbors and not drowning baby cartoons, put something under the anvil. Pillow from felt. I have the old tag involved. Choose, too, carefully, it is better to hit three times lightly than once, but incorrectly. This detail is rather difficult, because the lines intersect. I knock off where I can, and then I reveal the loop, I beat off each part separately, I close the loop and align the hammer. I work only with inside.
The secret of the master: "Lynіya Maє Bethi alive!" (Thanks again to our teacher drawing Vasily Vladimirovich Mikhalyuk). Well, personally, I like it, when wide and narrow sections are harmoniously alternate. This gives the fluidity and melodiousness to decoration.
Digging blanks will reveal a little. Inspect them carefully, sew the roundheads so that they again have become the same. Now we need to stall the ends and side surfaces to remove traces of tools.
Cut off two pieces of wire 0.8 mm 10 cm each.
At the ends of these two pieces, we need to make droplets. For this you need two cunning devices. First, the gas burner in the description of which the temperature indicates no less than 1200 degrees. Some masters make it over the burner of the gas stove. I will say honestly, I did not succeed. But before spending on expensive equipment, you can first try to move the circle of the divider to the middle and in this flame work.
Secondly, a bora! For mining, you will need a car mascara super-volume and a charming smile №2. To apply both to the other, in the middle of men, something converting in jewelry art, photographs or radio amateurs. :) Bura makes droplets perfectly smooth and significantly accelerates this process. Bend the billet with a bracket, dip the tips in the powder of the boos, and direct the flame stream from the bottom up onto the wire. Do not yaw, the process will take seconds. It is important to leave the neck of the droplets beautiful, not too thin. If the borah could not be mined, the droplet will still be formed, but will be in the crystal. This can be removed by the napfil and sandpaper. Long and imperfect.
Safety technique: Work on the gas stove turned off. If you drop the hot blank, it will not burn anything. The finished droplets can be kept in citric acid to get rid of blacks, and slightly modify the supfyl.
Here! What are the well done! Now we will shift thin rogulins to thick wire 0.4 mm. We form a blank on the sketch. We leave the tip 15 cm long on the left and begin to swell from the middle of the thick workpiece:
We attach a subtle billet. I like this: 4 turns on thick wire, 2 by thin.
The coils are better directly sent smoothly and tightly, but if it did not work out, correct with water or needle.
Cut the tip inside the design so as not to stick out. Climbing lightly slightly touched.
Now we return to the tip, which sticks out in the middle. We will give them to the basis of beads. We form a bend on a thin wire for a bead and tying. Fix the end the same.
From the protruding tip with a droplet make a beautiful spiral of the rounds. We determine the second earrings in the mirror image. Now we need to register these billets and two pieces of wire 0.5 to 15 cm. How to patinate in Amyica pairs (ammonic alcohol) I wrote in more detail in my past MK.
Walking outdoors for 2-3 hours. And now get the workpiece and start polishing. Do not forget about gloves and other protection. ;) Goe paste can be softened with machine oil a little, then thoroughly wipe felt in the right places that we want to light up. Final polishing make engraver, felt circle. You can do without this miracle car, but much more time and effort will be required. We wash the workpiece with a brush with a dishwashing agent.
It turned out very well. But I added a bead-flower with a hole in the middle. Put it with a wire of 0.5 patinated. I think my readers are very talented, and if there is no such beads will be able to cut it out for themselves or invent a different decoration version. ;) Reveal the Swenza, fasten our earrings. Ready! You can still cover copper varnish so that it does not dry. Leave at your discretion.
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