Tag: bracelet

Plying bracelet

On By CarynIn Craft

When spinning with my literal stick and my newly purchased Romney wool, I wanted to know how it would look plied, because this is the lowest twist I’ve ever put in making a yarn. This was a good opportunity to experiment with plying bracelets. A plying bracelet is made by wrapping the yarn around your hand (or other object) in a certain pattern so that when it is slipped onto the wrist, it is easy to ply from both ends without tangles. It is pretty magical, really, and worth exploring. There are several different ways to wrap a plying bracelet, here is the one I used.

Photo description: two plied yarn wrapped around my hand to form a plying bracelet
Photo description: plying from both ends of a plying bracelet to make a two ply yarn

The photos are a little out of order, I forgot to take a picture of the plying bracelet to make the two ply yarn, but then took that yarn and made another plying bracelet to make a four-ply cabled yarn.

This is an interesting technique and a nice little rabbit hole to explore.

Throwback Thursday: horsehair bracelet

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In September 2016 I made a braided horse hair bracelet for a friend with tail hairs from her three horses.

Photo description: three color three strand flat braid with sterling silver hand made clasp

There are other jewelry makers that glue the ends into metal caps. I don’t trust glue to hold, so prefer to pair glue with a mechanical join as well, in this case crimping down a wire wrap on the ends of the braids. When I do this again, I will do a different clasp, because the clip is difficult to get on, but easy to accidentally pop open.

Throwback Thursday: wire bracelet

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Today we are looking back to February of 2009 at a fun cuff style wire bracelet I made from thick gauge sterling silver wire. I bent the wire like ribbon candy, then hammered it flat (and kept having to readjust the bends because when you hammer them they want to open up). When I had the waves where I wanted them, I hammered it into a cuff shape around a bracelet mandrel.

Photo description: sterling silver wire bracelet in a squiggle pattern about 1/2” wide

The ends are curled into loops to protect the wearer from the cut ends. This is a fun little project and makes a pretty wrist adornment.

Broken

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My daylily bracelet finally broke after four weeks of wear. I felt it pop, but didn’t find the break until later where I joined a new leaf into the twine. It was probably the soak in the chlorinated pool that hastened its demise.

Photo description: daylily leaf bracelet with a broken strand on my wrist, calico cat in the background