Craft Ideas with Brass Chain

We all know that brass chain is widely used in creating cheap necklaces, earrings and bracelets. They are very popular in today’s fashion jewelry market. If you are a person who pursuits of fashion, you can’t ignore the brass chain and jewelry pieces designed by them.

Brass chain is available in different designs, sizes and colors. They can help you to create different style jewelry projects, for example, fashion style, vintage style, elegant style, cool style, cute style and others. About which style it will shows, it depends on your design and what kind of other jewelry materials you will choose. You can use several strands of chains together to hang a metal pendant to create a simple chain necklace. You can also use the chain with glass beads, porcelain beads or other beads to create elegant style jewelry. When you walk in your local jewelry stores or online jewelry stores, you will find tens of thousands of brass chain jewelry pieces available.

Brass Chains

But you are wrong if you just think brass chain is suitable for making cheap necklaces. Making hair jewelry with brass chains can be really fund. Handmade jewelry pieces are recyclable. It is time to use your out of fashion brass chain necklaces to create new hair jewelry. Well, if you do not have that you can go to a bead shop where they sell chain and necklace making supplies. Of course, you can purchase them from online wholesalers if you need more materials for other projects. For this project, you need these materials: thin wire, strands of brass chain, a brass loop, a small hair comb, a hobby pin (with the same color as comb), wire cutters and flat head pliers. Steps:

1, Open the brass loop and string the shorted chain on the loop. (Make sure that all the chains have different length.)

2, Continue stringing the rest chains, and use flat heap plier to close the loop.

3, Sliding hobby pin through the brass loop.

4, Cut a piece of thin wire. Make sure that the length of wire is about 2 times of your comb because you need to wrap it on comb.

5, Wrap the wire around the first prong of comb, and tighten is by using flat head plier.

6, String your shortest chain on the first loop, and wrap wire around the top of comb and back under. And then, string the rest chains at the same method.

7, Last step is tightening all the chains with flat head plier.

Brass Necklace Chain

A piece of beautiful and vintage brass chain hair jewelry is finished. I am sure you will be the spotlight in crowd when you wear it. Of course, you can also add some little vintage style pendants on this hair jewelry to make it more eye-catching. It all just depends on your creation.