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