I have looked at both commercial and hand-made samples.
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Most of the samples above are gold and silver purls as well as spangles and metal tubing. In the bottom left of the screen you will see macaroni painted with metallic and acrylic paints. Below them are the springs from clothes pegs, which I have painted with metallic paints. The silver tubing is the crimped edge of a foil dish, tightly wound round a wooden stick. The final sample in the left corner is silver foil and cord, wrapped around wire.
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At the top left are three strands of thick gold lurex wrapped round wire. On the right is sari waste, wrapped and stitched over wire and then coiled.
Below on the left, is red and pink floss wrapped round a purple glitter pipe cleaner. On the right, pink thread is wrapped round a silver pipe cleaner. Below this on the right is a length of copper sheet, twisted into a coil. It had a surprising amount of 'recoil' to it when it was pulled out.
Below are a variety of threads wrapped around wires. In the sample below the copper wire, the variegated thread has been attached to the wire using blanket stitch.
This was a fun activity and although some samples will not appear in future work, it brought up lots of ideas to experiment with.
