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Easy tutorial to make a wire pendant in the shape of a leaf. Materials: Copper wire 18G and 26G. Tools: Cutting pliers, round and flat. File for jewelry.

This tutorial shows you how to prong set a cabochon with wire. Long but detailed. It's a good design, holds the cabochon well, while the prongs are unobtrusive.

Celtic knot pendant tutorial; fancy Triquetra pendant with crystal beads incorporated in it.

Lantern pendant with large spherical stones without holes - jewelry making from copper wire. Really nifty way of ensuring that the petals are even. This pattern is suitable for stones with a diameter bigger than 1cm; the bigger the stone, the bigger the lantern. Without the Viking-knit bottom, this pattern can be used to make bead caps. Likewise, one could use a large bead cap for the first part of the pattern, and enclose with Viking knit.

Wire size to make pendant with diameter of stones 14 - 16mm 22 gauge ( wire diameter 0.6mm ) : 25cm( 10 inch) 28 gauge ( wire diameter 0.3mm ) : 50cm( 20 inch)

This video shows how to make a kumihimo braid with a wire core, not just for making cuff bracelets, but for pendants (and earrings etc). Rather than tying a knot in the cords and trying to attach the wire, this method wraps the wire around the cords, leaving one end of the wire free for making a wire loop (or wire decoration) and the rest of the wire is the core around which the braid is braided. Then, when there's still wire left, the braid is finished with a couple of half-hitches around the wire, and then the remaining wire can be played with for more decoration at the other end. And the braided part can be bent in whichever way you want, with the wire core making it stiff.

Make the wire into a frame, hammer it flat, stick to masking tape, use doming resin, sprinkle with beads or glitter to decorate before curing. Cool.

Showing the design process for a wirework pendant (more of a wirework centrepiece, really) Cool.

Cool tree-of-life tutorial which wraps a tree around a stone donut AND uses beads for leaves -- usually I've seen one or the other but not both.

Unlike most tree-of-life tutorials, this one starts from the top down rather than from the roots up. Makes a lot more sense that way, when using beads.

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 twiny-viny wire beaded necklace centrepiece tutorial.

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

Author and artist Gayle Bird shows how to make a beautiful wire bezel to create your pendant centerpiece.

Tutorial for a simple yet appealing wire cross pendant. I would have bookmarked this just for the inspiration - having it be a tutorial is a bonus.

Tutorial for how to make a tree-of-life wire tree with wavy branches, wrapped around a stone/cabochon.

Tutorial demo for wire-wrapping an undrilled stone to make a pendant.

Wire-wrapping a round bead to make a pendant. Intermediate skill level.

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.

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