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Simply Elegant Pendant

By Abby Hook

Uploaded on: Jul 26, 2009
Level: Easy
Price: $2.50
Description:

In this tutorial you will learn to make this delicate and elegant pendant. You will learn to make a simple wire frame, coil this frame and then add the herring bone weave detail, which holds the bead in place. This is a very quick and yet striking design to make.

Due to the need for precision placement of the wire this is a great project for practicing and improving your wire skills.

Price: $2.50
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Material List:
  • 1 Oval stone bead (approx 2 cm tall 1 ½ cm wide and ½ cm thick)
  • 5” 18 gauge soft round wire
  • 55” 28 gauge soft round wire
Tool List:
  • Long nose pliers
  • Round nose pliers
  • Wire cutters
  • Flat nose pliers
  • Nylon jaw pliers
  • Needle or pin

Number of steps: 24
File size: 581.05 KB
Page count: 11
Listing ID: #29418
2 Reviews
0 Tips
8 Comments
224 Downloads
0 Questions
Categories Wirework Techniques Creativity & Design
Tags pendant weave frame stone coil abbyhook.co.uk wire_work

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Abby, this is beautiful and
Submitted by Jodi on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 16:00.

Abby, this is beautiful and the name fits it perfectly. Bravo, My Friend, great job!!

Thank you jodi :) I actually
Submitted by Abby Hook on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 09:02.

Thank you jodi :) I actually drew a blank on the name for this for a while - then all of a sudden it just popped into my head LOL

Abby

Can this be adapted to
Submitted by dawnebryant on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 22:41.

Can this be adapted to square or rectangular stones?

Dawn

Dawn - this can easily be
Submitted by Abby Hook on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 07:00.

Dawn - this can easily be adapted to any shape of bead - it would just be a case of bending the frame to match the shape of the bead.

I have posted a couple of projects in the Students gallery showing different shaped beads.

Abby

Beautiful! Very classy
Submitted by chakanina on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 10:23.

Beautiful! Very classy looking. Thank you for sharing with us.

Thank you so much Chakanina,
Submitted by Abby Hook on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 05:00.

Thank you so much Chakanina, I am really pleased you enjoyed it and hope to see what you made when you have the time to post some pics :)

Abby

A lovely, basic and elegant
Submitted by shaktipaj on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 21:55.

A lovely, basic and elegant pendant tutorial, Abby! I love that you can make a fairly 'plain' stone into something spectacular!

Perri

What a wonderful thing to
Submitted by Abby Hook on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 07:06.

What a wonderful thing to say Perri - thank you :)

Abby

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