I’ve been making dimensional bracelets for a couple of years and have enjoyed both the uniqueness and comfort of them as well as the fact that customers also like them. Since I will be teaching how to make this arm wear at a November wire workers meeting, I’m using this venue to show pictures of a few of the bracelets.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are called dimensional bracelets because of the option of making layers of stones on the top focal area. These are particularly visible on the grey and orange bracelet. The top can also be made flat as in the purple bracelet shown here.        It took many mistakes to eventually get to this design and to figure out how to measure the wire in order to come out right. I’m not showing you the pile of too small and too big bracelets that I made before getting it right. I felt a bit like Goldilocks as I tried to figure this out. The back and sides are shown in the pictures that follow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve also made these in sterling silver, but they get a bit pricey since they require so much heavy gauge wire. Luckily, the copper style is made from recycled wire that has been cleaned, shaped, given a patina and tumbled. Surely it’s good and clean by now. This wire sells around $4 per pound as opposed to sterling silver that is running about $27 an ounce. Hmm . . . don’t you think copper is really better?