Monday, September 20, 2021

Wire Mood

 


The wire has been brought out of the cupboard again, after several months of waiting while I attended to other projects. Always I feel as though I'm "breaking the rules" (rules? It's art!) and I guess that's why I enjoy it so much, LOL. 

Actually, I do follow a few basic rules (discovered through trial and error) to create a piece that will be beautiful for a long time. The most important: non tarnish wire! These pieces with fiber tatting wrapped in are not suitable for the usual wire jewelry finishing techniques of oxidation and/or polishing. I used to use Argentium silver sometimes, but no, no, it tarnishes to a horrible color, not the attractive dark gray of "antiqued" silver. It can be polished carefully with a cloth embedded with silver polish, but really that is no fun at all! I gave all my silver wire away. 



My basic process for my wire + tatting pendants is shown in this YouTube video I made https://youtu.be/eHRmMAvf1gU 

Each one always comes out different!


8 comments:

God's Kid said...

Those are so gorgeous as all of your wire pendants have been!!!! :)

Jane McLellan said...

Really wow! Yes, polishing wire sounds tedious anyway and you wouldn’t want to affect the tatting.

Sumac said...

Beautiful work!

picotsnkeys said...

I appreciate your wire mood. And good to know about the choice of material. Thank you for sharing your creativity!

Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane said...

I love your wire pendants!

Margarets designer cards said...

Beautiful and your wire work is fabulous

Shanda said...

Love these, you are inspiring as always❤️

Мастерская Милабра said...

Beautiful, красиво!