Arts, Crafts & Cooking...: May 2010

Braided Bracelet Tutorial

Materials :
Sterling Silver 20g Round Dead soft wire 3'
14 Fire Polished beads size #10mm

Step 1: Cut one piece of 1'wire and
Cut one piece or 2'wire.

Step 2: Start with the 2'wire. Find the centre of the wire and make a loop which is the catch of
the bracelet.

Step 3: Twist the wires tightly so that the loop stands firm.

Step 4: Take the 1'wire and twist one end of it at the neck of the loop make a 3 or 4 wrap and

bring it to the middle of the other 2 wires.

Step 5: String 1 bead to the wire in the middle.Take care the bead goes till the end.(pic above)

Step 6: (pic above) Now, hold it in a position that the open wire is away from you. The loop is towards you. Bring the wire on your right side to the centre, over the existing middle wire; closer to the bead, as in the picture.

Step 7: (pic above) Now, bring the wire on your left to the centre over the wire which comes from the right. Now, the wire from the left becomes the middle wire. Hold the cris cross spot tightly with your thumb.

Step 8: (pic above) Now string the next bead to the centre wire.(the wire from the left is the new centre wire)

Repeat step 6,7,8 till you do all the 14 beads.

{ ie: Always string the bead to the wire which comes from the left to the centre.}

Repeat the same

Repeat till all the 14 beads are braided

Step 9: (pic down) Make one braid without the beads.

Step 10:(Pic down) Chose the shortest wire and wrap it around the other 2 wires 3 or 4 times.

Step 11: Nip off the rest of the wire from the wrapped wire.

Step 12: (pic down) With the rest of the 2wire, we are going to make the hook. Leaving 1"wire, cut of the rest of the wire.

Step 13:with the help of the chain nose plier, bend the ends of the wire.

Bend it tightly as you see in the above pic.

Step 14: Make a hook as you see in the above picture.

Step 15: Check if the hook catches the loop correctly. If when hooked, it appears like a mountain raise, please bend it at the neck of the bracelet or at the wrap with the help of the chain nose plier.