Comments on: Wire Weaving – Wire Keeps Breaking

By: CHARLOTTE BRUCE

CHARLOTTE BRUCE — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:53:53 +0000

THANKING EVERYONE,, IN TEARS WANTING TO LEARN HOW 2/WEAVE,, VERY GREATFUL!!!!,, BBLESSED

By: CHARLOTTE

CHARLOTTE — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:48:52 +0000

THANKS TO EVERYONE, ALMOST N/ TEARS WANTING TO LEARN HOW!! VERY HELPFUL,, THANK YOU,, BBLESSED

By: CHARLOTTE

CHARLOTTE — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:40:35 +0000

In reply to Barbara MacDougall. VERY HELPFUL JUDY,THANK YOU SO MUCH.

By: shiny

shiny — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 06:16:28 +0000

Hi Judy. Wire breaks when it has suffered too much stress. It hardens a bit every time you touch it. Be careful not to pull it with your pliers, and place it where you want it instead of pulling it. Also, relax your beginner’s death grip so you aren’t holding and pull the wire too tightly. Work on your tension, which requires a lot of practice, and there are numerous videos on youtube that can teach you how to hold and move your wire. It’s a learning process.

By: Christine Kenninck

Christine Kenninck — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 20:05:03 +0000

Hallo Judy, be very gentle with your wire, make curls when you manipulate it rather then fold. The more you work with a wire the more it hardens en the more it hardens, the faster it breaks. If you weave wrong and you start over with the same wire it becomes allready hard, if you now reuse the wire, it’s possible it brakes. You can put your finger in the wire and help it to go between the other wires in the form of a loop which you make smaller and smaller so it doesn’t kink and doesn’t brake. Hope it helpes!

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 21:18:10 +0000

Hi Judy
I have found that if you put your weaving wire on a bobbin, it is less likely to kink. I purchased the kumihimo plastic bobbins on-line through either Bead Smith or Beadalon. This sure saves a lot time also.

By: Barbara MacDougall

Barbara MacDougall — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 11:10:08 +0000

Hi, Judy, In general, if you let your wire kink it will break. You could be pulling too hard and wrapping too tightly. Ease off a bit on the tension. Also depends on what type of wire you’re using. There are countless beginner classes and online tutorials that cover the type, hardness or temper and quality of wire to use — as well as what to avoid. Easier to answer the question if you tell us what wire you are using, and add a photo of where it’s breaking.