DIY | Wrapped earrings

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DIY | Wrapped earrings

With the help of these DIY jewellery instructions you can make your own wrapped earrings with small pearls, beads and crystals.

 

In this blog post, we provide you with instructions on how to make earrings wrapped with agate beads, Delica beads or Swarovski crystals and hope we can inspire you to come up with your own cool designs.
For our jewellery examples we threaded beads and crystals on thin metal wire and simply wrapped it around the earings.
You can use this technique with all kinds of beads and produce various patterns and colour combinations. Coloured copper wire is well suited for this wrapping technique, sets with 12 assorted colours are available in 0.40mm.

For all examples, we recommend the following tools and accessories:

See technical guide for hoops with beads and windings here.

Buy the ready-to-use jewellery set Earrings with pearls and windings here.

 

Wrapped Hoops with Small Agate Beads

We used the following DIY materials to assemble these earrings:

 

 

First, you wind a little piece of wire around the hoop. Then, you string a bead on the wire and wind it around the hoop again. Hold the bead tightly while you wind the wire, so you don't end up with a lopsided work. For our example, we wound the wire three times in between each pearl and incorporated the chain after four pearls. 

The wire is thin enough for you to work with your hands alone, but in order to obtain tighter windings you can use chain-nose pliers. To round it off, you make as many windings as you made at the very beginning. Finally, you cut the ends of the wire. You can use chain-nose pliers to press the wire ends tightly to the hoop. 

In our example "Teardrop Hoops with Swarovski Crystals" you find a step-by-step guide with illustrations on how to make the windings. 

Wrapped Hoops with Small Freshwater Pearls

We used the following DIY materials to assemble these earrings:

 

       (Alternatively, you can use the small freshwater pearls size 3x4mm.)

Wrapped Hoops with Semiprecious Beads and Citrine Treardrops

We used the following DIY materials to assemble these earrings:

 

Teardrop Hoops with Swarovski Crystals

Kreol i drĺbe facon med swarovski krystaller

 

We used the following DIY materials to assemble these earrings:

 

 

First, wrap a piece of wire around the hoop, ca. 4 times. Then, you string 3 Swarovski crystals on the wire and wrap it afterwards around the hoop again. You can wind the wire with or without the help of tools, but a pair of chain-nose pliers can be helpful and secure that the wire comes to sit tightly around the hoop.

String 2 more crystals and wrap the wire around the hoop again.

String 1 crystal, wrap, string 2 more.

Finally, you string 4 crystals and finish the last windings.

Cut the ends of the wire and press them carefully to the hoops using chain-nose pliers.

 

Hoop Pendants with Swarovski Crystals

kreol-hćnger-med-swarovski

 

We used the following materials to make these earings:

 

Decorate the hoop pendats with Swarovski crystals in the same way as shown in the first example.
Afterwards, you close the hoop pendant and press the clasp together with chain nose pliers. To make absolutely sure that the clasp won’t open up again you can apply a bit of jewellery glue before you close it.
Finally, you open the eyelet of the earwires, hang the hoop pendant into it and close the eyelet again.

 

Hoops with Agate Beads

 

diy 2mm agater snoet pĺ kreoler

We used the following materials to make these earings:

 

For the wrapping procedure, please see example 1.

 

Earwires with Agate Beads

 

diy řrekrog snoet med sort kobbertrĺd og agater

We used the following materials to make these earings:

For the wrapping procedure, please see example 1.

 

Earrings with Delica Beads

 

diy řrekrog med delica seed beads perler

We used the following materials to make these earings:

For the wrapping procedure, please see example 1.

 

Earrings with Delica Beads

ĺben kreol med delica perler snoet med messing trĺd

We used the following materials to make these earings:

 

For the wrapping procedure, please see example 1.


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