Tutorial – Perfect Loops for your Jewellery Part Two

07 Jun 2011 2 Comments

by scarletleonard in Techniques Tags: Bead, how to, Jewellery, loops, Pliers, postaday2011, Round-nose pliers, Tutorial, Wire wrap

Here it is, part two of perfect loops for your jewellery this time focusing on wrapped loops. If you missed the first part about plain loops it’s worth reading first so you know both methods used.
Perfect Loops for your jewellery part one.
For those returning or if you just want to learn wrapped loops, enjoy this mini tutorial.

Wrapped Loop

The wrapped loop is a more secure type of loop, because it is fully sealed it can not come undone. I prefer to use these types of loops in my jewellery.

Starting Out

Step One

Step Two

Step Three

Step Four

Step Five

Step Six

Step Seven

Finished

You will need:
Wire
Chain Nose Pliers
Round nose pliers.
Wire Cutters

Step 1
Make a loop in your wire about 2 cm from the end. Straighten the loop so the longest part of the wire is running down from the bottom of the loop.

Step 2
Put your round nose pliers back into the loop and then wrap the short tail tightly around the longer wire. You can also use your chain nose pliers to hold the end of the short tail and pull it around.

Step 3
Once you have the wrap to the length you want trim off any excess on the wire tail and use your chain nose pliers to push the end to tightly fit to the rest of your wrap and the longer wire.

Step 4
Your wire will now look like this. Thread your bead onto the wire.

Step 5
With the bead tight to the first wrapped loop hold the wire with your pliers at the top of the bead and then bend the wire to a 90 degree angle.  (This step is similar to making a plain loop except this time you are leaving a gap for the wire wrapping.)

Step 6
Using your round nose pliers hold the wire at the point of the bend then use your fingers to push the wire around the pliers until you have a loop with a long tail.

Step 7
Keeping the round nose pliers in the loop an d using either your fingers or chain nose pliers wrap the wire tail around the wire below the loop and towards the bead, just as in step 2. Then just trim the excess and push it in tight with your chain nose pliers

Finished
You should now have a wrapped loop on both sides of the beads. You will need jump rings to attach this to another wrapped loop or to thread another loop through a completed wrapped loop before wrapping it.

I hope this helps you on your journey towards making jewellery or gives you some pointers on improving your technique, there are many ways of making a loop and many tutors will teach this differently but for me and my students this method has worked the best and I want to help you too.

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