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. 

Wholesale Jewelry Chains with Processing Services

Jewelry chains are an essential jewelry component, but we sometimes don’t think too much about, especially if the chains are designed to stay in the background to make another component as the center of attention. Jewelry chains are typically made from precious metals. While, in fashion jewelry, alloy chains, aluminum chains, brass chains, iron chains and stainless steel chains are the mainly used jewelry chains.

Online jewelry stores don’t always show close-ups of the jewelry chains used in jewelry, but you will shop with confidence once you become familiar with some of the most popular types of chains. Here are some for your reference.

Iron Cross Chain, Golden, link

Rolo Chain: A rolo chain is made up of symmetrical links that are joined together. Rolo chains are elegant alone and a fabulous chain for any bauble, bangle or bead. They are ideally suited for hanging charms and dangles to great effects.

Wheat Chain: To make a wheat chain, oval and twisted oval links are connected and intertwined together. The result is an intricate chain with a great deal of visual texture.

Box Chain: a box chain is made up of square links that are connected to create a smooth chain. Each link is wide, square, and interconnects with the next. Box chains are simple, slender chains fashioned from interconnected rectangular links.

Snake Chain: snake chains consist of wavy metal rings woven together in a zigzag pattern that emulates snake scales. Each link curves slightly at its middle and the links join to form a flexible tube.

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box chains

ead Chain: beads chains are often seen on dog tag style necklaces, and necklace or bracelets with a single pendant or charm. They can be double, triple and even quadruple layered for additional style.

Curb Chain: they are oval-shaped links twisted and often diamond-cut to lie flat. This type of chain has delicate detailed links, and is a more traditional style, which hangs naturally into a definite point at the pendant centre.

Rope Chain: this chain is just what it sounds like, two thick strands woven together giving the appearance of a spiral, made up of a series of small, oval-shaped links. This a classic elegant, timeless design which is always in demands.

Rope Chain

All the above jewelry chains are easily found in online jewelry stores. But I am sure many of you have met a problem just like me before that the chains were very chaotic when you received from your suppliers. Because those chains are packed in bunch but not spooled well. You have to spend much time on unfastening them. And you have to pay extra money if you use hourly worker to do that for you, as we all know that the cost for hourly worker is not cheap, especially inUSAand European countries. But this problem has been solved once my friends recommended PandaHall.com—aChinabeads, findings and gems online wholesaler to me. It can offer spooled chains in different materials, colors, sizes and shapes. What’s more, it can offer processing service for putting chains on spools, cutting chains (for example1m/bag) and others at your request. And the processing fee is quite cheap asChinahas the largest cheap labors all over the world.

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Top 3 Types of Chain Findings and Best Place to Buy

Chain findings, the essential component for connecting chains, are made of different metals in different colors and designs. You can find the most commonly used chain findings include ball chain connectors, chain links, chain tabs and end pieces.

Iron Ball Chain Connectors, Silver Color

Chain findings have similar function like jumprings that is both findings can be used to connect chains and other things. Most of them are made of brass, iron, stainless steel and silver. The common colors we can see are black, golden, silver, nickel, platinum and unplated.

Iron Ball Chain Connectors, Golden Color

About the ball chain connectors, it is not hard to know that they are used on ball chains. Each end of a connector is able to surround a ball at the end of a chain and snap over its wire connection, which holds it secure. These can be used to connect two lengths of chain, or to connect the ends of the same chain to form a loop. The connectors require no tools to apply or remove and are reusable. The shape of ball chain connectors is very single which is caused by its special use.

Iron Chain Links, Nickel, Heart

Regard to chain links; they come in various shapes such as oval, round, heart, square, rectangle, flower, fan, drop, flat round and so on. Some of them are plain; the others are craved patterns on them. They are not useful in connecting, but also are ideal decorations on necklaces and other crafts. Different shapes, colors and patterns will bring different effects to your designs.

Chain tabs only have a single shape as well as ball chain connectors. Manufactures always made them in golden, platinum, silver, black and red copper; even some of them are unplated. If you would like to make simple but decent jewelry, they will be a good choice.

Alloy End Piece, Drop, Golden

Many other chain findings are available on the market, just like “3”shape clasp, short ball chain with ball connector, “8”shape clasp and some other special shapes. They will bring special sprinkles to your designs.

Chain findings are very small but very useful. They can be bought in almost craft stores and jewelry beads stores. You can purchase them from online stores, for there are tens of thousands of jewelry beads wholesale online stores over the world and they can offer you a wide range of selection. PandaHall.com, a Chain beads, findings and gems online market, will be a good choice for you. It is a reputable jewelry materials wholesaler and leads the wholesale industry of beads inChina. PandaHall can offer you a large selection. No matter they are in precious or plated metals, you will find your desired one there.