Materials…
- Silver decorative lobster clasp
- 0.6mm silver wire
- Through-drilled acrylic disc
- Round-nose and chain-nose pliers and side cutters
- Steel stake and chasing hammer
To create…
1 Use the tips of your round-nose pliers to curl the end of a length of wire into a single loop. Grasp the loop flat in your chain-nose pliers and curl the wire into a large loose spiral, repositioning your pliers regularly to create an even shape.
2 Complete three rotations of the spiral before bending the wire end out at 90 degrees to the spiral. Hammer the wire shape on your steel stake to flatten and work harden it, taking care not to hammer any portion of the wire end.
3 Thread the large disc bead onto your wire end, then fold the wire spiral onto the face of the bead. If the spiral doesn’t sit flat, slide the bead out of the way and gently squeeze the wire at the u-bend to get a more snug fit.
4 Once you are happy with the position and fit, create a wrapped loop in the end of the wire, fixing a lobster clasp onto the loop before closing it and wrapping the wire. Remove the jump ring from the bookmark and attach your bead using the lobster clasp.
Project by Judith Hannington. Originally published in Creative Beads & Jewellery issue 1.