About Earring Making Supplies for
Making Bead Earrings
Want to learn how to make earrings? Find out what earring findings you need, where to
buy earring making supplies and links to beginner earring making instructions.
Jewelry Making Supplies for Making Earrings
You can purchase supplies or findings to make earrings from many jewelry making suppliers.
Of course, most of us do wear earrings. But when it comes to making earrings we may be a
little unfamiliar with earring parts, or findings.
Here, you'll find pictures and a brief description of some common earring findings
and earring making supplies.
Earring Making Findings: Earwires
The part of an earring that goes through your ear is called an earwire. There are several
types or styles of earwires. Most of us have a favorite!
 A sheppard's hook
earwire is very common. It's name is appropriate because it resembles a walking stick used by
sheppards of ancient times or a fishing hook used to catch fish. For a more secure hold on your ear, use with earnuts.
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 Lever backs open with a hinge and
have an open ring at the bottom. Open the ring with chainnose pliers as you would jump rings.
Add a plain or wrapped wire loop dangle to make beaded earrings.
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 Similar in shape to the body part,
simply unhook the long wire and add dangles to make bead earrings.
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 Open the simple loop as
you would jump rings and add beaded dangles.
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 No need to search
the world over for clipon earrings. Make your own clip on earrings with this finding!
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Earring Making Findings: Earnuts
Earnuts help to hold post and sheppard's hook style earwires on our ears. Some
earnuts also offer extra support in holding heavier earrings in the proper position on our ear.
 Use with post earwires
to securely hold the earring on your ear.
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 Use with post earwires
to help support your heavier beaded earrings.
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 Use rubber earnuts with
sheppards or fish hook earwires to help keep the earwire on your ear.
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Earring Making Findings: Earring Frames
Earring frames are very abundant. They make a great starting point for making homemade earrings.
Why? Because you don't have to make the entire earring! Chandelier and hoop earring frames are two popular
options. Just add beaded dangles and charms to make them your own!
 Chandelier earring findings
are wonderful. Half the earring is already made for you...Just add beads!
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 You can find a wide
variety of hoop earring findings in the jewelry making supplies section of most jewelry making suppliers.
Just pick up a few and add beads!
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Earring Making Supplies: Bead Caps
 Bead caps cup or sit
on top of beads, dressing them up. They add style to handmade earrings.
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Earring Making Supplies: Jump Rings
 Closed Jump Rings
 Open Rings
Jump rings are either open or closed (soldered) and are used to connect one bead unit to
another or as decorative spacing within a design. Jump rings connect separate bead units
together, making earrings longer or wider. Jump rings come in various shapes and sizes.
They can be very decorative, adding style and pizzazz to your homemade earrings!
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Earring Making Supplies: Jewelry Making Wire
For making earrings, the most common types of wire used are sterling silver wire and gold fill wire.
Wire allows you to make individual bead units and connect them to one another.
If you like wire jewelry, you may want to make the entire earring of wire (wire earrings) or make your own
earwires.
Use 20 or 22 gauge wire to make earwires. Anything larger may not fit the hole in your ear and
smaller gauges will bend too easily. Depending on the size of the earrings, use 22, 24 or 26 gauge
wire as the wrapping wire when making wire wrapped earrings.
Learn more about
jewelry wire.
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Earring Making Supplies: Jewelry Making Beads
Choose from an almost limitless selection of
jewelry making beads
for making earrings. Be sure to choose light weight or small size beads though or your
earlobes will be weighed down and stretched!
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Earring Making Supplies: Jewelry Making Pliers
You'll need an earring making tool or two to manipulate and cut wire to make earrings. If you need to,
review here what jewelry pliers
you'll use to make your own beaded earrings.
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Now, make your own homemade earrings! For you, I've put together an entire section
on how to
make earrings of different types.
You'll find easy beginner instructions for making earrings...
Make fashionable earrings, fun earrings, cool earrings, funky earrings and sexy earrings!
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