Creative Beading

Learn How To Make Personalized Wire Jewelry

Have you ever considered making your own jewelry? Did you ever think about starting your own jewelry business? If the answer to that question is “yes”, then there are some intriguing and easy to make types of jewelry that you might find interesting. These kinds of jewelry can not only be unique and appealing but they can often be relatively inexpensive to create and sell very well. So why not try making wire name jewelry for both fun and profit?

Wire jewelry is both an interesting an appealing kind of handcrafted jewelry. There are many ways of working with wire to choose from, each method varying in complexity. It’s a great way to start making your own jewelry because you can start with simple techniques and then choose to get more complex as you choose. Some of these techniques adapt beautifully for beginners who don’t necessarily have a lot of cash to invest.

A strong trend that was popular for many recent years was wire wrapping because it taught folks to combine wire and beads in creative ways for jewelry. It teaches folks to manipulate wire well, doesn’t cost much and needs very few tools to implement. With these limited wire skills, many women were able to create some lovely, quick jewelry using wire wrapping skills. Unfortunately, so many have done this type of wirework for such a long time, that wire wrapping’s viability for making and selling jewelry has diminished.

As with most things, trends pass, markets get flooded and trends die out. Fluctuations and trends in the fashion and jewelry industry are particularly keen. So how could you take the wire manipulating skills you may have already acquired and direct them towards something fresh, exciting and potentially lucrative? So, why not then try making wire name jewelry?

Even if you have no previous wire working skills, you can learn to make wire name jewelry within a short time period. That’s the truth.

Wire name jewelry pre-dates the Civil War and like many good things, it just keeps coming back because of its popularity.

Personalized name jewelry, be it from wire, etched or charm name letters, is a uniquely powerful and very personal gift for special commemorative occasions. For my daughter’s 16th birthday, I made her a wire name necklace to highlight the day. I really wanted to make her something special that I had put some of my time into. So I made her a sterling, wire necklace written in her name and attached it to a delicate sterling chain.

Personalized name jewelry is part of the new fashion and jewelry trend and potentially a very lucrative jewelry making endeavor right now. With Christmas approaching in a struggling economy, making wire name jewelry offers some cost efficient aspects: first, you could save yourself some money this holiday season by making your gifts. Wouldn’t it be delightful to give your grand daughters, daughters and other beloved friends their own name jewelry? Not hard on the pocketbook either. I have personally seen the crowds of people waiting at art fair booths selling wire name jewelry. Customers have crowded art fair booths that I’ve been at recently. This seems to be a very popular trend.

Andy Turner, a wire name jewelry artist, has made a living from his personalized jewelry for years and he’s recently made his very thorough, fool proof book called, Wire Writing Secrets available. Before reading the book, I didn’t realize how detailed forming the letters was but Any covers every detail with complete photos of how to form the letters and names. Very thorough book. Extensive, step by step photos and text make this craft a very attainable hobby or business for anyone interested in making their own personalized jewelry.

Beads, Baubles, and Jewels Series 1300 Preview

Beaded Wine Glasses (Set of 4) Festive wine glasses decorated with multi-colored beads and silver wire make a special occasion even more fun….

Creating Wire & Beaded Jewelry with Linda Jones $29.94 Follow along as Linda Jones, the author of 5 wonderful books on wire and bead jewelry (also available from Amazon.com) takes you on a journey of how to use basic tools and wire to create clasps, jump rings, spirals, squiggles, heiroglyphics and much more! Linda has taken a workshop normally offered over 2 days and condensed it down to 2.5 hours of easy to follow lessons for the home viewer. Al…

Beads Baubles & Jewels DVD 1300 Series $38.98 New Host, Fresh Look, More Great Jewelry-Making How-Tos! Take the next step in your journey as a jewelry artist with the newest season of America’s favorite jewelry-making TV show: Beads, Baubles, and Jewels. Trusted by beginners and experts alike for over 10 years, each season of Beads, Baubles, and Jewels, is packed with the info you need to boost your jewelry-making skills. And now you can r…

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making and Beading (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer) $11.09 wiley publishing jewelry making beading. each skill or technique is defined and described. features detailed color photos that demonstrate each step and helpful tips that provide additional guidance. you will learn to craft designs that are chic but inexpensive. covers tools and supplies bead stringing and weaving wire wrapping and more concise two page lessons show you all the steps to a skill an…

Beautiful Wire Jewelry for Beaders: Creative Wirework Projects for All Levels $12.80 Beautiful Wire Jewelry for Beaders features projects that combine wireworking skills with beaded jewelry design. The book is technique-driven, with chapters on wire fundamentals, terminology, materials, and basic wireworking techniques, and projects that develop the reader?s skills. The projects incorporate gemstones, crystal, glass, and pearls and are designed for both beaders and wireworkers of …

Totally Twisted $3.45 INTERWEAVE PRESS-Totally Twisted: Innovative wirework and art class jewelry. Master basic wireworking techniques and learn creative ways for combining colored and sterling silver wire and glass beads in your jewelry design. With step-by-step photography and directions; jewelry artist of all levels can learn how to bring color and glass into their wirework. With twenty-four projects and tricks and …