Jewelry Making Technique - How to Make Necklaces and Bracelets Lay Flat

This article features a technique for making necklaces and bracelets lay flat. Generally, wire components like to be connected perpendicular to one another, and for this reason, manufactured chains have slight twists built into them so that they will lay flat automatically. This approach should be considered when connecting wire components in jewelry pieces.

One easy way to connect two wire components is to use either a wrapped bead link, a jump ring, or a figure 8 connector to connect the components. Any of these approaches will allow a connection of loops in the vertical plane, and allow the wire components connected to remain in the horizontal plane.

In some rare occasions, you'll find that you need a connector which connects to one component with a vertical loop and to the other component with a horizontal loop. It is possible to do so by making a figure 8 connector, and rotating 1 loop of the figure 8 by 90 degrees using chain nose pliers.

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