- Stack your bead(s) onto a headpin.
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- Use chain nose pliers to grab your wire just above your bead and bend the wire at right angle over the top of the pliers. Leave a small upright length before bending, as shown.
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- Grab the wire with round nose pliers above the bend. Use your fingers to bend the wire up and over the the top of your round nose about 180 degrees.
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- Continue the loop around the round nose pliers until it is a full loop.
The tail of the wire should be sticking out at right angles to the upright section of wire, as shown.
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- Grasp the loop at the top with your chain nose pliers in one hand.
Use the other hand, with or without pliers, to grip the end of the wire
and coil it tightly from top to bottom around the upright wire.
Keep going until you reach the bead, but do not force that last loop,
or you will force the bead off the headpin, either by snapping the wire
or bending the head of the pin out of shape.
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- Tuck in the end of the wire with your chain nose pliers.
And finally, remember -- nobody makes a perfect wrapped loop the first time! Practice with less expensive Artistic craft wire before you start using sterling or gold-filled wire.
For more on wire wrapping see THE WIRE BENDING BOOK - Wire Wrapping Beads & Beading.
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