Using two or more jewelry-making media -- such as metal, wire, stone, resin, clay, etc. -- to create a single piece of jewelry.
Wire wrap is a hand fabricated method of jewelry design and creation. It involves the use of tools to bind and twist wires together. Some of the basic techniques include twisting the wire, wrapping a wire bundle, crimping or flattening the wrap, scrolling, and shaping.
Spiral wire units forming lacy designs in flat metal framework.
Strong metal plates with many holes for changing wire's size or shape.
Wire can be reduced in size or changed in shape by pulling through the draw plate.
Cells of rectangular wire are placed in a pattern on a metal surface, filled with enamel, and fired.
Stone inlay in a metal framework of flat wire cells.