Wires for Jewelry Making

The wires for jewelry making varies in lengths and gauges. If you are a newer in jewelry making, you should learn how to choose the best wire for your project. So it means that you need determine your project first. Because different jewelries need different wires.

As for beginners, copper wire is good enough to make jewelry. Copper wire is cheap and soft. You can fold it without strength. Many people like metal winding jewelry. Experienced man can use wires to wind various shapes of jewelry like heart, maple leaf, pentagram. At the most time, wire is used with gemstone, pearl, iron.

Sterling silver wire and golden wire are also very beautiful. But there is another kind of wire, aluminum wire, which has a lot of colors. Aluminum wire is used in many fields including construction industry, electrical distribution industry, communication industry and broadcasting industry.

 You can match wire with beads and copper wires is more practical. The gauge of copper wire is about 20 and it is especially popular for all beads. 20-22 gauge are good all-purpose, versatile wire sizes, thin enough to be able to string on most beads. 

It is very famous among the people who like junk jewelry. It is also used as silver enameled copper wire which is used to replace sterling silver. As copper is resistant to tarnishing, the jewelry made with it can be used for a very long time.