DIY jewelry and jewelry manufacturing is becoming a popular hobby. Someone treats him easily and naturally, only occasionally indulging in this occupation. And for some, the creation of handmade jewelry becomes a life-long affair, bringing a good income.
If you decide to master this craft, you can’t do without knowledge of fittings in any way. In the work you will find useful various accessories designed for the manufacture of jewelry, which, fortunately, today are available in a wide range. And the basic element, without which no master can do, are pins. Usually, those who are seriously engaged in the manufacture of jewelry always have at hand a huge amount of these auxiliary elements. What are pins? We will understand in the article.
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The pins are designed to fix the beads where they belong. With their help, elements of earrings, rings, bracelets, beads are fixed. What are pins, even beginner craftsmen know, collecting their products from purchased beads.
They are used to create bracelets, rings, chains, necklaces, earrings with beads and various decorative elements. Pins allow you to achieve a very interesting effect.
Mode of application
The pin is threaded into a bead, its free tip is rounded with a special tool, which allows you to fix it in the right place.
The remainder of the wire can be cut off using wire cutters, shoved back into a bead or curled around a pin.
Kinds of pins
All the variety on the market can be divided into three groups. First of all, these are carnation pins. They are so called because they look like ordinary nails, only they look more elegant. The easiest way to work with them is the simplest pins for jewelry. How to use this hardware, you can guess intuitively. The pin leg is inserted into the bead, the cap prevents it from slipping off, and the loose protruding tip can be rounded off at your discretion. Such pins serve for the finite elements of the product.
There is another common variety of the first type - decorative pins for jewelry, photos of which are presented below.
The name speaks for itself: in addition to functionality, they also carry a decorative load. The hat of such a pin is decorated with some element: a rosette, a flower, a small bead, a rhinestone. Like the first, such pins are intended for the final elements of the product, to which anything else is not attached.
What are pins with loops, those who weave chains and bracelets in which beads are interconnected know. This element allows you to make a cyclic system in which beads threaded onto the pins are connected into a common base. The principle of working with such pins does not differ from the previous one. The only difference is that instead of a hat, a pin is crowned with a loop to which you can attach a connecting ring, chain, earring, earring, bracelet lock and everything you need.
Metal colors
The most popular and common today are metal pins for jewelry. The following colors are widely represented on the market:
- silver;
- old silver;
- gold;
- brass;
- bronze;
- copper.
In addition to these, a lot of multi-colored: blue, green, burgundy, brown and others. Such a huge assortment opens up the broadest opportunities for creativity to the master.
Exclusive and handmade
It may seem that the market of bijouterie accessories is completely and completely conquered by the Celestial Empire. In fact, this is not so at all. And although Chinese hardware has a huge segment, you can easily find completely unique things. They are especially appreciated by those who work with semiprecious and precious stones, exclusive glass-blowing beads, pearls, and jewelry items for jewelry. Noble metal worthily emphasizes the uniqueness of the basic elements.
Today, author's accessories are presented on the market: forged toggle locks, earrings, bead hugs, pins for jewelry. What are these accessories and who produces them? Often the jewelers themselves, wireworms, blacksmiths themselves. Although among this category there is a small percentage of factory-made products.
Pins in work
What will be the result? After all, just figuring out what pins are is not enough for a good result. Products made with such accessories are light and ringing, similar to clusters of mountain ash or grapes.
In order to make bunch earrings, we need:
- beads of the same size or different, depending on the idea (paired quantity);
- pins-cloves for jewelry (according to the number of beads);
- two pieces of a jewelry chain of the desired length;
- a pair of schwenz;
- a pair of connecting rings.
In addition, you can not do without pliers and nippers.
Try to pick fittings of the same color. Unsuccessful metal reduces the cost of the product, gives it the features of consumer goods, rather than exclusive craftsmanship.
First, divide the beads in half to get two identical sets. However, asymmetrical earrings are also in fashion today. It all depends on the design.
In order to work more conveniently, first we fix all the beads on the pins. The tips that protrude outward are rounded with pliers.
On a connecting ring we put on a piece of a chain and a schwenz. Tighten the edges together. With the second set, we do the same. We attach to the chain the free ends of the pins, bent into rings. The more beads there are, the more magnificent the earrings will be.
Pins as a decor
Some masters use pins not as an auxiliary material, but as an independent element of decor.
Take a look at this necklace. To create it, the master needed a handful of pins with rings on the tips, several colored beads, a chain with a clasp and a standard set of tools. To make the clusters of pins look more magnificent, their tips were selectively cut, giving them different lengths. You can take pins of the same length.
By the way, the earrings in the photo are decorated with connecting rings of a contrasting color. This once again proves how important it is to know the hardware that is used in the work.