Wholesale Pocket Watch for Steampunk Project

Knowing how to make steampunk jewelry is not the end, for some handcrafts lovers, it’s just a beginning. Now as many of us has been deeply influence by the fashion of retro flavor of steampunk jewelry, the demand for these special art projects surged.

Where to buy gears for steampunk fashion jewelry? Now many jewelry making supplies wholesalers have added watch parts into their product category. Firemountaingems, American’s biggest beads and jewelry making supplier may have taken the lead.

All the parts we need to make steampunk jewelry comes from antique watches, while not all parts of the antique watches could be useful to you. Sometimes we only need the gears, or the innard plate or the watch hands.

Before we make a decision how to buy watch parts for our steampunk project, we should make a good comparison. Compare the price of course.

First choice: Yard sale.

Nearly all of the brass gears used in steampunk projects comes from wristwatches, pocket watches, and clocks of all sizes. Look for yard sale broken clocks that cost second to nothing. Second hand stores would a great source of cheap or broken and free alarm clocks and similar pieces.

Followed by: Cheap Antique Steampunk Pocket Watch

To finish the endless searching for the unique watch parts for your steampunk design, cheap antique watch face and finished pocket watch jewelry from China supplier would be a good way. Though the watch is still in use, it is very cheap. Thus it would be fine to tear it apart for gears to make jewelry.

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For Wholesale Steampunk Findings

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Leather Pearl Wrap Bracelets

How to make leather pearl wrap bracelet? Tutorial videos and instructions can be easily found on Youtobe and blogs. There are so many kind hearted artisans who are willing to share their skills and great craft ideas on the internet with us.

The beads used to make leather wrapped bracelets varies a lot. Tiger-eye beads, jade beads, African turquoise beads, hematite beads and rhodonite beads. Only if the beads are roughly round shaped and smooth enough which won’t cut our skin, and then they’re suit for leather wrap bracelets.

	Freshwater Pearl Beads The quality of freshwater pearl beads differs a lot. Available Color: While, Black, Purple
Leather Cord For jewelry making and wrap bracelets, the size of leather cord should be match with the diameter of the pearl beads. Available size: 1mm 1.5mm 2mm

The method to make leather pearl wrap bracelets is the same with other kind of beaded wrap bracelets and the only difference is the beads being used. Where to find the supplier who can offer good quality and inexpensive pearl beads?

Freshwater pearl beads are now mainly cultivated in China, thus the eye sourcing for wholesale pearl beads might be fixed on the huge and surging market there.

Material we need to make leather wrap pearl beads bracelet: Pearl Beads, Leather Cord, Beading Needle, Beading Strings, Buttons / disk beads.

Multi-layered leather and pearl beads wrap bracelets.

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This kind of leather and pearl bracelets are quite similar to the Shamballa style bracelet. Click here to get the full instruction for how to make shamballa style bracelets.

Freshwater Mother of Pearl Shell Beads

Mother of pearl shell beads necklace have a special charm, bold while still remain to be mild. Among all types of wind chimes, I love the shell wind chimes most for its clear sound and soft tunes.

Mother of pearl, when maintained the original appearance, can be easily made into wind chimes; and after a slight procession, can be flexibly mound into the shape we want. Mother of pearl rosary beads and mother of pearl bird beads are now commonly been seen on our costumes jewelry design.

Mother of Pearl shell beads are made from freshwater pearl mussels, which are also known as abalone. When dyed into candy colors, mother of pearl shell beads can turn out to be very sweet and charming.

	Red Ring/ Circle Shell Loose Beads for Necklace Outer diameter： 30mm Each strand is 39cm long and has approximate 13 beads.
Mixed Irregular Shell Loose Beads Size: Approx: 7mmx7mm-16mmx10mm Hole size: 1mm Thickness: 1.2-3mm(1/8")
	Mother of pearl rosary beads Size： 25mm x 24mm Hole size: 1.2mm Thickness: 2mm

The main chemicals of freshwater mother of pearl shell beads are Calcium carbonate, the loose texture of which means these shell beads are prone to be broken. So when wearing jewelry made with mother of pearl shell beads, we should pay extra attention. ^_^

Silver Plated Chains, Forever Charming

Silver jewelry, as one of the most favored pet in the fashion industry, has successfully withstood the test of time. Under the picky examination of our eyes, silver jewelry remains its purity impression in our mind.

Of all precious metals, silver has the highest penetration rate. People’s love and enthusiasm for silver jewelry has never died off. While in today’s crafts and handmade industry, starling silver are still a little bit expensive. For this kind of handmade jewelry or costume jewelry, style and creativity are also much important than the precious metal.

Thus silver plate products came into being. For freelances as small business owners who design and make costume jewelry at home, silver plated chains has successfully allowed them to cut the cost to the lowest. And the lowest making cost means highest sales performance.

Sterling silver plated chains and silver tone jewelry chains are frequently used during the process of crafts making. As chain necklace or chain bracelets, or just chain decorations. Place orders for wholesale silver plated chains are very safe for these chains are resistant to compression. So we don’t have to worry about deformation problems.

	Silver Plated Heart Oval Link Chain: Oval loop:16x10.5mm heart loop:13.5x14.5mm Description: This silver plated chain is very special. With only a little more decors, featured bracelets or necklace would be made.
Silver Tone Cirlce Link Chain Hole size: 14.9mm Thickness: 1.6mm Description: Loop and loop, circle and circle, simple while meaningful.

Silver plated chains are much cheaper than sterling silver chains, while it pertains the charming.

Seed Beads for Beaded Beads

Now “How to make beaded beads?” has become the daily question which would be asked by a large amount of jewelry making lovers. Beads totally made by beads? Well, this crazy thought has become into reality far before I begin to realize the existence of this wonderful idea.

In the world of jewelry making, these incredible things continue to happen at a much faster speed. We have many things yet waiting for us to learn. Such as beaded beads, which after the appearance of Beading Quilts Project, has become the hot topic in beauty chasing world.

And as the beading quilt project, beaded beads project also need a large sum of seed beads. Thus for a beaders and jewelers, please be noted if your usually beads and jewelry making supplies wholesaler can offer you seed beads in full size and full color.

	AB Color Glass Seed Beads Approx: 4mm x 3.5mm Hole size: 1mm Thickness: 3.5mm
Mixed Glass Tube Seed Beads Approx: 7mm x 2mm Hole size: 0.6mm Thickness: 2mm(1/8")
	Mixed Glass Seed Beads Approx: 3mm x 3mm Hole size: 0.8mm Thickness: 3mm(1/8")

Seed beads come mainly in two main categories, glass seed beads and acrylic seed beads. Both of the two categories are very handy. However, when we are doing our beading work we should be careful with the fragmentary side corners which remain beside the seed bead. They’re usually very sharp and can easily cut the fingers. Well, the seamless safety measure we can take is wearing a pair of gloves.

Cotton Wax Cord for Beading and Jewelry Making

What can we do with cotton wax cord? Well, this is really a tough question. Cotton wax cord is as all the other string things. However, these cords are much softer than leather cord, much thinner than Elastic Beading Cords.

Beading and stringing things are the daily usage for jewelers and crafter's. Usually in their eyes, nothing in the world is useless; nothing in the world is ugly. And anything in the world can be used to make beautiful and stunning designs.

Maybe that’s the eternal motto of the handmade world – Everything is beautiful, but most of us have neglected their charm. When artisans perceive it, huge aesthetic feeling can be infused into them after a creative mergence and alteration.

	Wholesale Mixed Wax Cotton Cord Six colored Mixed wax cotton cord, 1 mm sort is so much easier for threading beads. And also very good for Shamballa bracelet.
Mixed Wax Cotton Cord 1.5mm sort No matter for your beading work or your cord bracelet making, these colorful cotton wax cord are the gold match for your design.

Cotton wax cords are one of the jewelry making findings whose usage are heavily underestimated . When we begin to recognize its huge creativity buried deep into the corner, a huge demand for these originally humble cords shows up.

Cotton wax cord is the perfect material to make knotted bracelet and anklets, to braiding Shamballa bracelets, and also to be used as macramé.