Jewelry making is a great activity for a girly night in or a birthday party, it's fun, easy and it doesn’t have to be expensive. Furthermore, with jewelry-making, you can rest assured no one will have the same jewelry as you, and you can also customize it to perfectly match your outfit or mood. This page will tell you all about the jewelry accessories you need for jewelry making, you’ll be making your own in no time! To learn more about clasps used in jewelry-making, look here.
Jewery accessories: metal stems
- Metal stems are available in gold, silver and copper. Some are flat whilst others are bent or rounded.
- Stems allow you to link different parts of jewelery together. They are mainly used for necklace pendants, charms and earrings.
Jewery accessories: basic rings
- Basic rings are cut open at one end. This allows you to easily open them with a straight stem. They are mainly used to connect parts together or to attach a pendant to a necklace.
Jewery accessories: double ring
- Double rings are made of two circles and are therefore more solid than the former type.
Jewery accessories: beads
- Use small metal beads which are available in different colours (golden, silver, copper or bronze). Fix these onto a wire or nylon thread. Then, attach them to a clasp at the desired length.
Jewery accessories: tightening clip
- Tightening clips are available in silver, gold, bronze and copper.
- Use these to fix together one or numerous threads onto clasps. Therefore, you can assemble all sorts of threads, such as silk ribbon, cord or satin onto a necklace.
Jewery accessories: Cache-Nodes/ Cache-Knots
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Cache-Nodes hide the knots made with thread or the crimping beads which resemble threads. It allows for a clean finish.
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Place the cache-node on the knot or the crimping beads, use one end of each for better strength and re-close the cache-node with the help of flat-nosed pliers.
Jewery accessories: plaques
- Small plaques can be made of perforated metal. Copper, silver or golden, plaques can be round, square, hexagonal… with lots of or little detail. When fixed on an adjustable clasp, they can be used on a ring, broach or as a pendant- the possibilities are endless!
Jewery accessories: supports for earrings
- There are many supports which can be used for earrings, but the most common is a type of buckle. You must slip the beads on with a needle to a metal thread/ wire.
Jewery accessories: ring supports
- Rings with flat applicator areas: silver or gold, round or square, you can easily create designs by attaching beads straight away.
