[Jewelry making - Article 00410] - Re: [Orchid] Wire weaving

[Donna E. Shimazu]

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>     Being a weaver, I am curious as to how this was constructed. I can
>     see that the weft is one wire, with its two ends soldered together
>     and hidden under the disk, but I can't figure out how they managed
>     to hide all the warp end(s) and still get the weave so tight! Any
>     ideas?

    Question:  Is this ring rigid?  It almost looks like interlocking
    coils (twirl the coil through another coil like you would twirl it a
    coil through the holes of a spiral bound book)  that are alternately
    ofsett and soldered to one another at the ends with no warp involved.
     The coil that closes the ring is twirled through  the two coils at
    the ends of the bent around strip of coils.  Then final coil's ends
    are soldered in place.  The inside diameter of the coils wouldn't be
    much more than twice the thickness of the wire and the spread between
    each revolution of  the coil would be about the thickness of the
    wire.  Does this make sense? 

Donna Shimazu


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