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Wrapping a rough stone in crochet to make a necklace

Tutorial for wrapping a marble or stone inside a cage. The link points to the tutorials page, not to the download file itself; this tutorial is a freebie, the others on that page are not.

Tutorial for a frame around a long round stone (not a flat cabochon)

Pretty wire-wrapped cabochon tutorial, with some cool zig-zags.

A step-by step picture tutorial wrapping a gemstone-bead in a wider shape. Good to see how that kind of thing is done; I've seen lovely stuff in this style but not how it's done.

Beautiful wrapped cabochon bracelet. I'm not sure I'd want to make the whole bracelet, but the technique for wrapping the cabochon is worth taking note of. The page is in Russian, but the pictures are self-explanatory.

This tutorial shows you how to wire wrap a cabochon with a 5 strand braid.

Materials:

1mm wire (18 gauge) 4cm x 3cm oval fluorite cabochon

This video shows setting a tear-drop shaped Labradorite cabochon with wire-wrapping. What is extra interesting is that it shows the design part, not just the wrapping part. It also does it quickly, by speeding up the film, which means that it doesn't take a lot of time to watch.

Author's note: "In this video I show you how to set a drop of labradorite with wire wrapping technique , this was a custom order."

How to wire-wrap a cabochon or flattish stone to make a pendant. Materials: Cabochon/stone 0.8mm round wire 0.4mm round wire

Nice cabochon-wrapping tutorial

This uses the Viking Knit technique to make a bezel around a cabochon (rather than making a rope). The back of the bezel is framed by thick wire, the sides and front are viking-knit thin wire, which gives a nice lacy effect.