Making jewelry: a little about furniture

In general, fittings are meant different auxiliary parts, which make an object whole. For example, the furniture fittings include hinges, handles, latches; to the shoe - zippers, shoelaces, buckles; to the window - hinges, handles, etc. A fittings for jewelry - a variety of details used in making jewelry with their own hands.

Manufacturing of costume jewelry without accessories is impossible: it's the accessories that make a bunch of colored beads with beads or bracelets, and a couple of colored pebbles with earrings. Whatever was the basis of your jewelry - beads of polymer clay, felt beads from felt, beads, ready beads - you can not do without hardware. What accessories can you need and how to choose it?

To make necklaces and bracelets with a fastener you will need jewelery locks: screw locks with a twist (kegs), carbines, hooks, buttons, toggles, multi-row locks (for beads and bracelets consisting of several rows) or magnetic locks (for light products).

To make earrings you will need schwenzy. A piece of an earring is called ainserted into the ear. The most common option is hooks (sometimes they are additionally supplied with silicone plugs). There are also hinged loops, French and English schwenzy, shvenzy-rings and studs ("carnations" with plugs). There are also bases for clips: classic (with a platform or loop) or with a screw clamp.

Manufacturing of costume jewelery of some kinds will not do without billets-bases. The base for the ring It is actually a ring with a place for fixing a decorative element - loop (or several), mesh or pad. Basis for brooch - the pin again with a place for fastening (loop, pad, hole). Also, there are bases for pins, bracelets, etc.

It is impossible to make jewelry without accessories intended for stringing ornaments. These can be cords (leather, velvet,waxed), ribbons (from satin, organza and other fabrics), wire, chains, silicone cords, chokers (steel cord holding the form), wire with "memory effect" (memorial wire), fishing line, jewelry wire (jewelry string, lanka, etc.).

When manufacturing bracelets and beads, you may need separating and auxiliary beads and so-called clamping beads (krumpy). Crimps are used to make products in which the distance between the beads is provided - they fix the beads, preventing them from moving.

Beads are used for beautiful framing of beads, for the purpose of reducing several rows of beads into one - cones. Beads-separators can be used exclusively for separation (dividing strips, tubules) or perform also an aesthetic function (rondeli).

Even the manufacture of jewelry may require the presence of auxiliary elements (connecting rings, kallotov, clips for cords and tapes, holders for threads), decorative elements (connectors, pendants, frames for beads, stones and plastic elements) and decorative accessories (holders of pendants, beels, holders for glasses). You may also need pins (with or without thread) and pins.

If you decide to take up the manufacture of jewelry and are puzzled by the choice of accessories, you need to remember a few nuances. At first, clearly define the design and appearance of the product, to understand what kind of accessories you need. The finished product should be easy to handle, but the fittings must be in harmony with its appearance.

Secondly, Select the furniture taking into account the material, from which the product will be manufactured. For example, for a bracelet from a metal chain with metal pendants, a magnetic lock does not fit - it simply will not hold the finished product. And when working with plastic beads, it is much more convenient to use a pin with a thread than without.

Making jewelry is an interesting and exciting hobby, but if you want your jewelry to live a long life, pleasing its owner, responsibly refer to the choice of accessories for jewelry.