Its quite lovely and beautiful. I love the organic look achieved from fusing the copper pieces and your wire work is stunning. Thank you for sharing this.
just wanted to tell you thank you for your inspiration, your generosity,and sharing your talents. I really enjoy your videos. I have a couple of questions, though. First, when you’re designing a piece how do you know how much wire to cut for your base wires? And secondly, let’s say after you finish weaving a piece (example-bracelet) and you decide you need to add another base wire, how to you do that? Everyone covers adding a weaving wire, but I can’t find in anyone’s books how to add a base wire. Or how to guesstimate how much base wire you need when designing. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you
Thank you! 😊 Generally when designing I think about how much wire I'll need to create the general shape, how many times I might want to go back over it for embellishment etc and if i want a bail I'll probably add an inch or so. Then I'll add on a bit more for good measure! Generally I like to be sure I've got enough to complete the piece and will err on the generous side as I know I can use any offcuts for findings, jumprings or fusing! One of the advantages of using copper rather than silver is that you're not so worried about potential wastage. I don't tend to add in base wires, so I might have to give that some thought. If you wanted to, say, widen a bracelet I'd probably think about making another woven piece and attaching it to the original as I weave (the more attach points the better). Adding base wires for length is a bit more complicated, so I'd probably leave a section of each wire (the old and the replacement) bare, continue the weave on the new piece, then use the ends for some embellishment. This might not end up how you originally intended the piece, but is a great way to discover entirely new designs!
Thank you! I am updating one of my pages - I have two (greedy, I know!). I'm trying to work out how to merge them, and what to call the eventual page, but at the moment you can find my 'live' page at facebook.com/teresakennarddesigner/.
Thank you! This one is fairly simple to clean. Firstly, I seal my pieces with Renaissance Wax when they're finished to help stop tarnishing. For general cleaning, I use washing up liquid and a toothbrush to get into the small crevices. For more intense cleaning they can be re-polished. Or for a complete 're-set' , as this one is all copper, it can be put back into the pickle solution to get back to bare copper, then re-polished, patina re-applied, and resealed.
Have you considered doing some beginner tutorials on how to weave. The reason I am asking, is because there are very vew wire weave tutorials that I are by left-handed weavers and I am sure many would find it helpful.
I have a small confession - I'm not actually left-handed. Well, not when I'm writing anyway. I do have a problem with my right wrist, though, so that might be why my left hand gets to do some work! Anyway, yes, I was thinking about some weaving basics tutorials, so stay tuned!
