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Want to improve on your beading skills or just learn a new technique? Follow our step by step instructions to help or apply the skills by practicing using one of our technique in focus projects   Wrapping - Connecting Chain & Charms   Wrapping Top Drilled Teardrops & Dagger Beads   Threading Wire   Wire Wrapping Beads   Wrapping Wire Around Beads   Wire Wrapping Large stones & Cabochons   Crochet   Creating Rings & Ring Bases   Coiling wire   Creating Flat Spiral Coils   Wrapping Beads on filigree bases   Coiling & Twisting 28 Gauge wire   Turning Headpins   Turning & Joining Eye pins   Opening & Connecting Jump rings   Punching Holes in Metal   Cutting Chain   Attaching Charms Onto chain   Attaching an earring wire   Adhering a Bail onto a pendant   Ending with Charlotte ends   Ending with wire guardians   Crimping Tiger tail   Curling Tiger tail   Multi stranding tiger tail   Encasing Beads with Wire lace   Threading beads with Wire lace   Wire lace with a constant strand   Using Stretch Elastic   Knotting   Ending suede with caps   using hollow tubing with tigertail   Steam punk Techniques   Using Glaze Drops   Creating collage image charms & pendants   Creating a embellished ring or bezel   Using enameling fluxe resin   Resin Casting   Using Smooch Accent Inks   Using enamel pen & brush   Memory Glass   Creating a glass pendant   Using Guilders Paste