Cheryl St Pierre’s pretty wire swirl and pearl earrings tutorial caught my eye. At first look, I questioned how she managed to get the pearls into what’s a 20 G wire design! As you already know, the holes in pearls are tiny! A better look revealed a intelligent integration of wonderful wire to carry the pearls in place!
I like how she labored each earrings collectively to make sure a mirror picture and even designs.
One suggestion for rookies – attempt holding the wrap wire near the work. This reduces undesirable wire kinks. This teacher is skilled in wire work so she is ready to maintain the wrap wire additional away.
Cheryl would not present the way to patina the copper wire . If you want to take action, I believe dunking the earrings shortly into Gun Blue (see hyperlink beneath) will work. I’ve tried doing this efficiently to different porous gem stones like turquoise however I’ve not really examined it on pearls. (Makes be aware to self for a future submit!)
Gun Blue is quite a bit simpler and fewer smelly to make use of than liver of sulfur. The copper will flip darkish in just some seconds. Rinse effectively after which use #0000 metal wool to shine up the copper leaving the recesses darker.
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