DIY Jewelry: Wire Wrapping Button Rings

Combine your jewelry making skills and learn how to wire wrap buttons. Design button rings, bracelets, and earrings by wrapping or coiling wire. Watch the Youtube video below for an easy step by step tutorial:

 

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Tutorial #1 - Button Ring

Tutorial #2 - Button Necklace

DIY Jewelry: Beaded Bracelet Cuff

Beadaholique is a useful website for learning how to create new DIY jewelry. You can watch instructional videos, follow step by step tutorials, learn about new jewelry techniques, or shop for supplies on their website. Watch the video below to learn how to create a cuff using wire and tila beads:

Jewelry Supplies Needed for Project:

1. Glass Beads
2. Tila Square Beads
3. Wire Thread (7 ft used or project)
4. Pliers
5. Scissors

Click here for detailed instructions on the step by step tutorial 

Ickynicks Jewelry is an online handmade shop for men and women. We design gold hoop earrings, sterling silver and stainless steel fashion jewelry.We provide links to tips and tricks for jewelry making.

DIY Jewelry: Love Leather Bracelet

Leather bracelets are fun to make because they’re easy once you learn the basics. Here’s a quick and fun project for beginner jewelry lovers. Learn how to make a leather bracelet with a ‘love’ bead.

You will need the following supplies:  

• Scissors
• Tape
• Jewelry Glue
• Pliers
• Tube Beads with words
• Lobster Clasp
• Multiple strands of small cord (1.5mm-2)
• 10mm end caps (glue on)

Click here for full detailed instructions on the step-by-step tutorial

 

Ickynicks Jewelry is an online handmade shop for men and women. We design gold hoop earrings, sterling silver and stainless steel hoop earrings. We provide links to tips and tricks for jewelry making.

Ancient Greek Jewelry: History of Earrings

Greek Jewelry contains pure gold and gemstones such as garnet, agate, emeralds, and pearls. Hellenistic jewelry includes bangles, bracelets, earrings, rings, pendants and armbands. Handcrafted earrings from Ancient Greece. Craft your own project at home. Get inspired start a project by mimicking earrings from historical times. Teach yourself how to make antiquity jewelry by wire wrapping using gold and silver plated wire.  Why not give it a try?

Gold Earrings of Nike, Greek Goddess of Victory.  

225-175 B.C.

  

Gold and Garnet Dangling Earrings

2nd - 3rd Century B.C.

Large Dangling Gold Earrings with Discs

300 B.C.

Hellenistic Period

 

 

 

Gold Earrings

100 - 50 B.C.

  

          Gold and Garnet Earrings 

4th Century B.C.

 

                   Gold Earrings with Discs                              

                   3rd - 4th Century B.C. 

Pair of Gold Earrings

3rd - 4th Century B.C.

For More Information:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wikimedia Commons

Ancient Roman Jewelry and Earrings

Jewelry and Earrings from Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire. Both men and women wore handmade jewelry pieces including bracelets, earrings, rings, collars and necklaces. Romans wore gemstone pendants and pearls that  wire wrapped around gold. 

Gold Earring with Pearl

2nd-3rd Century AD

Earrings with Agate Pendant

3rd Century AD

Garnet Earrings

1st Century AD

Gold and Variscite Earring, 2nd Century 
 AD

 

 

 

Garnet Earrings,

 1st -3rd Century AD  

Gold Loop Earrings

2nd-3rd Century

 

Gold and Garnet Earrings

 1st -3rd Century AD

Inspiration from Traveling

Where do you find jewelry inspiration? Sometimes we find our best inspiration by traveling to new places. We can get inspiration from looking at historical monuments, or homes from the 1800's, watching the leaves on Oak Trees that have been around for hundreds of years, or going on tours and sight seeing. Recently, we took a trip to Mackinac Island, which is an island from the 1600's involving Native Americans, the French and the U.S. for a scramble for territorial rights was heavily prized for its fur trapping trade.

30 minute ferry rides leave Mackinac City, Michigan and head to the island. Watching the boat hit the waves as the sun slowly departs in the sky over the water is a sight worth watching. As we arrived onto the island, we headed up the hill for a quarter mile walk to Mission Point Hotel. Comprised of several buildings, this hotel used to be a college that held the women's dormitory. Presence of ghosts are supposedly said to haunt the golf course and main lodge.

Walking downtown in the crisp autumn air with the beautiful blue water from Lake Michigan is so inspiring for craft making. Even sitting outside at the downtown cafe on the island and watching horse drawn carriages go by is remembrance of older days when life was simple. You can feel the slight breeze brushing across your face while smelling the beauty of lilacs. An ideal scene like this allows you to pull out your jewelry supplies, pencil and paper and sketch a new design for earrings.