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Heirloom Bracelet
NOTE: This project includes one or more items that are no longer available, despite our best efforts. We have kept this project on the site for you to use as a template or inspiration for your own creations.
Project B103
Designer: Andrea Morici
With it's filigree antique brass and flowery vintage cameos, this bracelet looks as though it is a treasured
item found tucked away in your grandmother's jewelry box.
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What You'll Need
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Instructions:
- Take four of the filigree bead caps and open them. Press them flat using your fingers, or you can gently hammer them flat. We recommend using the Jeweler's Chasing Hammer.
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Add a small amount of glue to the very center and place a cameo so that the edges of the filigree bead cap protrude from behind the corners of the cameo evenly.
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Press the cameos into the glue on the bead caps and allow them to dry. Setting of the glue takes place within 10 minutes and full hardness and drying occurs within an hour.
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Once the glue is dry, use a hard surface (such as a bench block) to form the protruding bead cap arms so they fit snugly around the cameos.
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On the back of the cameos, you will see a series of loops in the design of the filigree bead caps. The four innermost loops at the top and the bottom of the triangular four-hole pattern are what you will be threading your wire through. First, however, you must make them stand up so that the wire can pass through easily. Using a pair of chain nose pliers gently pry the four innermost loops upward so that they are at a ninety degree angle from the back of the cameo.
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Cut two pieces of the beading wire 10 inches long and secure one end of each with a Bead Stopper.
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To each strand, thread four new jade serpentine beads.
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To each strand, thread three matte black delicas.
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Add a cameo to both strands, threading the wire through two of the filigree holes at the top and two at the bottom on the back of the cameos.
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To each strand, thread three more matte black delicas.
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Thread four more beads to each strand, followed by another cameo. Repeat this process until your strands of wire contain all four cameos with a total of twelve matte black and eight new jade beads on two strands of wire between each cameo, and six matte black and eight new jade beads on two strands of wire at either end of the bracelet.
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Add a jump ring to all three of the holes on each connector link.
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Remove the Bead Stoppers from your wire.
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Thread a crimp bead on to the end of each wire strand, loop the ends of the wire through the each of the jump rings on the double-hole side of the connector links, and back through the crimp bead.
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After making sure that every bead and cameo is evenly spaced and both strands of wire are the same length, crimp the beads and trim off excess wire.
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Gently open the four crimp bead covers, place them over the crimp beads and close again.
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To one of the jump rings on the single hole side of the connector links, add the hook. To the other, add the eye.
The bracelet that we made is almost eight inches long. If you would like to make yours slightly smaller, omit two of the new jade beads from both sides of the bracelet.
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