Basic Wire Wrapped Ring Tutorial - Part 2: Design
So at this point you should have read part 1, and you’ll have a band with a stone and some bare wires ready to design with! I want to show you a couple of variations, and encourage you to create your own unique designs, as well!
***This is not a step-by-step tutorial on making one ring, but rather a collection of pictures to help you understand how these rings are made!***
Same Concept, Endless Designs
After making a ring or two, you’ll be able to dissect each one of these designs.
It’s a matter of mixing & matching a single & double coils/weaves/bare wires to design the wires sticking out of the sides of your ring. There are tons of options!
Basic Mirrored Shape
Wires are pulled up, around the stone, over the band, and tucked under.
Just as you learned to wrap the stone in part 1 of this tutorial, this is the same exact movement, you are echoing the same motion.
Swoop & Tuck Shape
Wire's are pulled up, around the stone, swooped into an “S” shape, and tucked under the band (opposite side of the band than the previous design).
See the process of a swoop & tuck design:
Begin coiling (or weaving) around the bare wires. Adding double coils are a bit more difficult, but it just takes more time to get used to!
For this design, I went with a single coil with 30g threading wire.
Added this to the inner-most wire first, on both sides.
For the outer-most coil, I went with an 18g half round single coil.
I love the beaded look this kind of coil gives.
This is the general shape of the design.
I secured these wires first, and then mimicked the shape with the outer-most wire as well.
Final design.
“Beaded” coil echoes the first, threaded coil.
Here’s a look at the underside!
You can follow the wires with your eyes from this angle to see how it is pulled up, around the stone, and where it was tucked in.
Basic Mirrored Shape:
This is a weaved design with 30g threading wire between the two wires.
This is brought around the stone, and tucked away over and under the band (same as the wires that secured the stone).
I repeated this design on both sides.
Tie Off: This goes for any ring design.
Make sure that you have as little tie off as possible.
Tie off should always be in one layer, or you will decrease the size of the ring.
Tie off should always be cut off above the band, so it will not snag someones finger.
Happy wrapping! I hope you come up with some great ideas, and I’d love to see your designs if you’d tag #thewobblywooktutorials on social media.
