Wire-Wrapping Radiant Blue Fire Labradorite Sun Pendant Tutorial

Greetings my dear wire wrapper!

Learn how to craft a wire wrapped blue labradorite pendant in my Wire-Wrapping Radiant Blue Fire Labradorite Sun Pendant Tutorial.

You will practice wire jewelry design using combination of different materials such as wires, gemstones and beads.

Follow my simple step-by-step instructions and detailed progress pictures to keep yourself on this creative track. 

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Happy wrapping!

LEVEL: ADVANCED

MATERIALS + TOOL

• Copper Wire (16 AWG)
• Copper Wire (20 AWG)
• Silver Copper Wire (26 AWG)
• Copper Wire (26 AWG)
• Small Round Yellow Diamond (1 pc)
• Labradorite Flat Round Stone (1 pc)
• Small Raindrop Crystal with Hole (1 pc)
• Gold Spacer Beads (16 pcs)
• Wire Cutter
• Chain Nose Pliers
• Round Nose Pliers
• Nylon Jaw Pliers
• Stepped Bail-Making Pliers
• Finest Steel Wire Wool
• Masking Tape
• Designed Template
• Tack It Adhesive Clay
• Wooden Ring Mandrel

WIRE-WRAPPING RADIANT BLUE FIRE LABRADORITE PENDANT TUTORIAL

Step 1 of 15

Ready all items from the Materials and Tool list (fig. 1a).

Firstly, let’s form the main wire frame for your sun pendant.

Take a 16-gauge copper wire and wrap a loop at the base of a wooden ring mandrel (fig. 1b, 1c).

Adjust the wire loop according to the size of your fire labradorite stone (fig. 1d, 1e).

Then, mark and bend the extra wire upwards using a chain nose pliers (fig. 1f, 1g).

Step 2 of 15

Secondly, let’s form a secondary inner frame in the shape of a flower.

Draw a round flower design template on a piece of paper as shown (fig. 2a).

Then, take a 20-gauge copper wire and trace the flower template (fig. 2b, 2c, 2d).

Take note that the starting point and ending point of the inner frame are on the same flower petal (fig. 2e).

Step 3 of 15

Thirdly, let’s weave rays of sunlight or sunburst details onto your sun pendant frame.

Use a 24-gauge silver copper wire as the weaving wire (fig. 3a).

Make a few starting coils on the 16-gauge main frame as an anchor point (fig. 3b).

Then, slip in one golden spacer bead and make a stopper coil on the 16-gauge main frame (fig. 3c, 3d).

Step 4 of 15

Next, let’s create the sunray wires by pinching loose coils with a chain nose pliers (fig. 4a, 4b, 4c):

• Small sunray wire (fig. 4d).
• Medium sunray wire (fig. 4e).
• Large sunray wire (fig. 4f).

Finish the design with one of each medium and small sunray wires (fig. 4g).

Repeat a second set of bead and sunray weave combo on your 16-gauge main frame (fig. 4h, 4i).