The charm of wire wrapped crystal jewelry

Wire wrapping is one of the oldest handicraft techniques. Usually, this technique involves bending metal wires into circles or other shapes and then using wires to wrap, enclose, or shape them to complete the whole piece. Because of the "wrapping" feature of this technique itself, it is called "wire-wrapping," and it is also known as "wire-winding" or "wire art."

The history of the wire-wrapping technique can be traced back to around 2000 BC, during the Sumerian Dynasty and the Roman period. There were some spiral-shaped jewelry parts and loop-shaped ornaments made of wire. Wire-wrapped jewelry is one of the oldest handicrafts. The British Museum currently has wire-wrapped jewelry from the Sumerian Dynasty, dating to around 2000 BC (about 4000 - 5000 years ago). Metal wire-wrapped jewelry is currently the only "cold-process" jewelry: no welding, no casting, and the completion depends on the bending of the metal wire.

This technique of making jewelry without welding has yet to withdraw from the historical stage due to machine production in the industrialized era. There are still a tiny number of handicraftsmen who insist on using this original technique to make jewelry. The maker only relies on a pair of hands and uses simple tools to intertwine, twist, and interlace metal wires individually. Completing the whole piece depends on just a few connected cables, which are very delicate and pleasing to the eye. Metal wire-wrapping is a unique production process and one of the oldest handicrafts. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that each piece is one-of-a-kind, and because of the natural texture, these pieces carry the most simple and natural flavor.

Metal wire art does not have strict requirements for materials, tools, production environments, and craft skills like traditional goldsmithing jewelry. The entry-level tools are straightforward. You can start with just a few pairs of pliers, cutting pliers, and a ruler.

Tools：

Pliers

Most importantly, you need to prepare a set of professional pliers for wire-wrapping. Needle-nose, cutting, bending, and cutting pliers suit different production details.

Materials for production

The materials for production include copper wire, silver-plated wire, pure silver wire, K-gold wire, and gold-plated wire, among others. There are many choices, and they are easy to obtain.

However, many people like pure silver, K-gold, and gold-plated wires. There are many choices. Wildsophy will find in practical production that a seemingly simple piece often becomes extremely difficult when they start to make it: the hardness of thick-gauge metal wires is beyond imagination, and the desired shape can never be achieved; excessive force will leave the wire full of plier marks, which is very ugly; repeated modification of the shape causes metal fatigue and the critical parts of the piece break.

Below are some of our wire-wrapped handicrafts.

In the fast-paced era, in the busy and non-stop urban life, handicraft activities and the feeling of handicrafts seem very far away and are even regarded as time-wasting. But in fact, it is a process of regaining the connection with time and oneself and an embodiment of slow life. Regain the time at one's disposal, regain the way of getting along with oneself, communicate with like-minded friends, discover the shining points between each other, discover the scenery around, be inspired in joy, and be at peace in tranquility.

In this industrialized era, machine production has created many miracles for society, but at the same time, it has also taken away many things that move and warm us. Due to the characteristics of pure handmade production, wire-wrapped jewelry is doomed to be unable to be standardized for mass production. Still, at the same time, it is flexible enough and full of infinite possibilities.

Wildsophy likes the handmade beauty of wire-wrapped jewelry, so we also hope those who buy the treasures can have the same feeling. We use all-natural crystals to make the jewelry full of a sense of design and collection value.