The wire allows you to create a wide variety of products - from simple rings of first graders in love to vintage jewelry and Christmas tree decorations.
Due to the fact that the material does not deteriorate over time, one and the same work can be improved for a long time.
What is the wire
Everybody knows the usual metal wire. It is worth clarifying that it can be divided into:
- Copper;
- Aluminum;
- Steel.
The latter is least suitable for needlework, because it bends poorly. Aluminum is the softest, but it will break after several flexions and extensions. However, she looks smart.
It should be used if the skill level already allows you to achieve the desired shape the first time. And copper can be bent several times without consequences, so it is best for beginners to train with it.
In addition to simple metal, there is a coated wire. Various colors of varnish are used for beading. It does not crack when bent, it allows you to set off any beads. And the floristic wire has a paper braid.
A separate type is chenille wire. This is a fluffy multi-colored stick in which a thick soft pile is woven with a rigid frame together.
Very popular in preschool and school art. Allows you to easily make elegant flowers, caterpillars, butterflies and other cute animals.
Where to buy DIY wire? In the departments and shops of handicraft goods, there is a large selection of jewelry wire. For the first time, you can take a wire from old wires. You just have to carefully remove the braid.
Contour products are the simplest
Usually, acquaintance with this material (at any age) begins with the manufacture of flat wire crafts with your own hands. The general rule: first make the contour itself, and then decorate it with internal bridges, curls.
You can first draw a sketch, this will simplify the work. Experienced craftsmen recommend using wire of the same quality, but different in thickness, for flat figures. Thick - for outer lines, thin - for inner lines.
Bulk products
Often, bulky products can be performed by a novice master. First you need to make a frame, and then braid it, as shown in the photo.
There are a great many wire crafts: you can make dozens of people alone. In different positions, different heights and sizes.
And the animals are simply amazing - thanks to the plasticity of the material, it is possible to reflect their characteristic movements, outlines, and turns.
Fluffy products
Crafts made from chenille wire are real toys. If you buy a whole set of wires of different colors at once, then in one evening you can twist a whole fabulous composition or characters of a small theatrical performance.
Material in natural colors (beige, brown, orange) ideal for cats and puppies. And it is good to save bright colors for flowers and butterflies.
It is best to do them together with the baby, and for an older child it will be enough just to show the diagrams of wire crafts.
Bicolor puppy
The toy's paws and muzzle will be of the same color, and the body, head and ears will be of a different color. For this craft from fluffy wire, you will need four whole blanks - two in two different colors and a piece of black for the spout. The sequence of actions is as follows.
- A frame needs to be made from one whole wire.It consists of a back, legs and a small loop in front, on which the head will grow.
- Take a different color to work. At the end, bend a small tail and, starting from the back, wrap the body of the dog.
- Pass a black piece into the front of the body, at one end of which bend the nose with round-nose pliers. Twist the second black end of the wire several times.
- Thread two new wires into the loop in the front of the dog; make small eyelet loops from one, wrap the ends around them;
- From the second, twist the muzzle so that the tip of the black wire sticks out of it.
- Make the eyes from pins with colored heads, having previously shortened the metal part.
The two-color puppy is ready.
Snowflakes
Beautiful and simple wire crafts for the New Year are a classic of joint creativity with children. There are many ways to make snowflakes.
Here is one of them.
- Take 10 wires. Fold them in half and twist them together in the middle. You get a blank with 20 beams.
- Twist the beams in pairs at the middle of the length.
- Dissolve the tips in different directions, and expand the resulting "pockets".
- Twist the short ends again, forming a second row of small pockets. The free rays will remain very small.
- Twist them together, forming round loops.
- The snowflake is ready.
Floral motives
A rose is made by twisting the wire into a bundle of loops. They start from small ones and end with large petals.
Hyacinths turn out very believable if you wind a blue or light blue wire around the green one.
Tulips and snowdrops are several narrow loops gathered at the bottom with a green sepal. The only difference will be in size and color.
It is better to arrange all wire flower crafts in a single composition. Spring flowers are appropriate to put in a wicker basket. It can be made from paper or newspaper tubes. It is preferable to put roses in a vase.
And also delicious mimosa is made from yellow chenille wire. At a great distance from the real one cannot be distinguished. The same bright and fluffy flowers.
Photo of wire crafts
