How Do You Make Bails For Jewelry?
If you make jewelry, you probably have an assortment of beads of all shapes, sizes and colors. Beads look wonderful when combined with each other and strung together to make jewelry. But you probably also have many beads in your collection that, if suspended on their own from a single chain, would make great pendants. Pendants typically hang from necklaces by a simple mechanism called a bail. A bail is essentially a metal or wire loop through which a necklace can be strung. By making a bail, it is easy to convert a bead into a pendant. Select a bead with a hole that runs all the way through, from one end to the other. Cut a piece of wire three times as long as your bead. Insert the cut wire into one hole of the bead and push it through until it comes out of the other hole. Determine which end of the bead will be the bottom of the pendant, which will point toward the floor. Pull the wire through the bead so that only about ΒΌ inch of wire – more if the bead is large or heavy – emerges at
