Dangle Examples

Hammered Ends

One of my favorite dangles is made by hammereing the end of the wire into a paddle. This method looks great as a group of dangles of various length. Hammered ends can also serve as head pins for Seed Beads, Round Beads, or Faceted Beads.

16 ga Flush Eyehole

20 ga Centered Eyehole

20 ga with Seed Beads and 3mm Round Bead

20 ga with Seed Beads and 6mm Rondel

20 ga with Seed Beads

22 ga with Seed Beads

16 ga

20 ga with Seed Beads

Coil Embellished

Spruce up a simple beaded hammered end or folded end dangle by coiling fine gauge wire above and/or below the bead.

20 ga with 3mm Cube Bead

20 ga with 3mm Cube Beads

20 ga with 4mm Round Bead

20 ga with 6mm Round Bead

Beaded Links

Unlike connecting beaded links, these beaded link dangles replace one of the eyeholes with a crimped (1) or folded (2) end or shaped frame (3-11). Any Seed Beads, Round Beads or Faceted Beads may be used on the stem (1-2,4-10). Additional beads including Drop Beads may be stung onto finer gauge frames (8-10). Thicker gauge frames may be wire wrapped with beads (11-12).

(1) 24 ga Wrapped End with Seed Beads

(2) 24 ga Folded End with Seed Beads

(3) 20 ga Petal

(4) 20 ga Teardop with 3mm bead on stem

(5) 24 ga Leaf with Seed Beads on stem

(6) 24 ga Diamond with Seed Beads on stem

(7) 24 ga Circle with Seed Beads on stem

(8) 24 ga Circle with Seed Beads on stem and frame

9) 24 ga Circle with 4mm Bicone Crystal on stem and Dagger Bead on frame

10) 24 ga Circle with Thorn Bead

11) 20 ga Framed Wire Wrapped Pip Bead

12) 20 ga Framed Wire Wrapped 6mm Round Bead

Jump Rings

Jumps rings make cool dangles on there own or accented with beads like Round Beads or Faceted Beads with large enough holes or Drop Beads. They can also be used to create waterfall style earrrings as shown in the Pip Beads example.

Naked Rump Ring

Amethyst Chip

4mm Round Bead

Pip Beads

Top Wire Wrapped Beads

This method of wire wrapping is used for top drilled beads like thos in Drop Beads and Tirangle Scales from 2-Hole Beads.

Briolette

Drop

Dagger

Thorn

Petal

Triangle Scale

Center Wire Wrapped Beads

This simple wire wrapping method encircles Round Beads with wire several times creating a tight frame.

8mm Round Bead

4mm Round Bead

Spiral Wrapped Beads

The wire wrapping method creates a tight spiral at the bottom with tendrils spiraling up around the bead to the top. It looks great with Round Beads and rounder shaped Faceted Beads including Round, Rondel, and Teardrop.

8mm Round Bead

6mm Round Bead

8mm Teardrop

Herringbone Wrapped Beads

This is a popular wire wrapping method that looks great with Celtic Inspiration designs due to the overlapping wire pattern remineccent of Celtic knot design. It can be used on 4mm and larger Round Beads and rounder shaped Faceted Beads including Round, Rondel, Coin, and Teardrop.

4mm Round Bead

6mm Rondel Bead

8mm Teardrop

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