Beaded Coiled Wire Beads

by Natalie Patten

Category: Contemporary
Technique(s): Coiling, Beading
Skill Level: Beginner

These beaded components are a simple and effective way to create links in necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Using minimal tools and materials, they can be adapted to work with many gauges of wire and sizes of seed beads and are easy and fun to make.

Materials

20 Gauge Round Gold Tone Brass Craft Wire - 30 ft

H18-C20-30FT

Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $6.80
Gold Club Price: $5.10

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8/0 seed beads

Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each

Gold Filled Eyepins 24GA 2 inch - Pack of 10

J8-26

Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $7.14
Gold Club Price: $5.36

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20 Gauge wire - Choose your option of metal

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Chains - your choice of chain, finished or unfinished

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Tools

coiling gizmo

Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each

Round Nose Wire Pliers

G2-507

G2-507
Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $32.95
Gold Club Price: $24.71

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Chain Nose Wire Pliers

G2-508

G2-508
Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $32.95
Gold Club Price: $24.71

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C.H.P Milano Italian Flush Cutter, 5 1/2 Inches

PLR-487.00

PLR-487.00
Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $16.97
Gold Club Price: $12.73

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20 X 15 Inch Padded Work Mat

MAT-620.00

MAT-620.00
Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $14.95
Gold Club Price: $11.21

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8 Piece Brass And Steel Mini Mandrel Set

G7-28

G7-28
Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $9.97
Gold Club Price: $7.48

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Optional Tools

WireJewelry - Ultimate Wire-Pliers Jewelry Pliers with Case, Set of 5

G15-20

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Price: $170.72
Gold Club Price: $128.04

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Instructions

Step 1

Cut 20cm/8 inches of 0.8mm/20-gauge wire and attach the wire onto a coiling tool, dowel or knitting needle by wrapping it three times to anchor it on and secure.

Natalie Patten's Beaded Coiled Wire Beads - , Contemporary Wire Jewelry, Coiling, Coiling Wire, Wire Coiling, Beads, attach your wire to a mandrel

Step 2

Add on approximately 40 size 8 seed beads to the wire.

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Step 3

Gently push up the seed beads toward the top of the wire with your fingers to ensure that they sit close together with no gaps between them.

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Step 4

Wrap the seed-beaded wire around the dowel to create a coil.

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Step 5

Continue to create three wraps around the dowel after all the seed beads are in place.

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Step 6

Slide the coiled component off the dowel or knitting needle.

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Step 7

Trim off the excess wire in line with the last seed bead.

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Step 8

Do the same on the other side of the component, so that there are an even number of finishing wraps on each side.

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Step 9

Use chain-nose pliers to gently pinch in the last part of the coil slightly, to bring it in line with the coil and to prevent any sharp ends of the wire from sticking out.

Pro Tip: Using this gauge of wire with approximately forty size 8/0 seed beads will make each component around 1 inch long.

You can change the size of wire and seed beads (as long as the seed beads fit onto the wire) and vary the amount of coils around the dowel you make.

If you use the same amount of seed beads each time you make a coiled component they will be fairly consistent in size to each other.

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Step 10

Create or use an eye pin and thread the eye pin through the center of the beaded coil.

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Step 11

Bend the pin to 90 degrees, horizontally, close to the other end of the coil.

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Step 12

Trim off the eye pin, leaving around a centimeter of the pin from the bend at the top of the coiled component.

Natalie Patten's Beaded Coiled Wire Beads - , Contemporary Wire Jewelry, Coiling, Coiling Wire, Wire Coiling, Beads, trim the eye pin

Step 13

Use round-nose pliers to create a simple loop on this end to make a double ended connector.

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Step 14

Make multiple of the components and attach them together with jump rings or chain to make bracelets and necklaces.

One end of the eye pin can also be attached to an earring hook.

Add a bead to the bottom to make earrings.

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Natalie Patten

I'm Natalie Patten, I'm from Liverpool in the UK. I first discovered my love of wire work during lockdown and this hobby quickly spiralled into a huge passion and obsession, for wire wrapping crystal gemstones. So much so, that I changed my career working in education, to become a jewellery designer and set up my business Rock, Scissors, Paper specialising in wire wrapped, ethically sourced gemstone jewellery. I also secured my dream job designing and teaching for the UK's largest supplier of beads for jewellery making! I make lots of different jewellery designs with a variety of techniques but my absolute favourite is wire work and I feel absolutely blessed that I can spend my time creating, learning and sharing my passion with others!