Ooooh.... Aaaah.... I like that. Wire wrap is wrapped, but that looks different. Chance you can get me a picture of the back?
Yes, if you cover the stone too much it distracts... I think Chris it's doing well with keeping it minimal and a little bit of flash with his bail designs. Usually the wire wrapper will use that and the edges as their "fingerprint" or signature design area.
Straight forward wraps like that are simple, I like that.
I think the "hot" wraps
with the crystal crowds are now the weaves... With 10+ oz of silver wire (
) in an amazing weave to hold a bunch of different little crystals and rocks.
I've seen lots of the counter culture wannas with these.
While I've seen some amazing weaving skills with the wire, I personal do not find them useful. You could hold the same plethora of crystals with silver sheet and bezels and proper setting and avoid the chaos effect, but I guess that's the point and what they aim for.
To take simple wire of one or two gauges and capture the material with the weave and avoid the extraneous processes requiring the other metalcrafter skills while maintaining that nomadic lifestyle
Ok, the above kinda sounds negative and apologies too all, that's not the tone I'm really trying to send, just don't know how to describe it I guess.
I will acknowledge the skill in the weaving, but the effort to avoid using solder is amazing to me. I have a few folks here locally and I offered to show them basic metal skills but they didn't care for the opportunity so I really think it's the nomadic lifestyle they live.
(if I was 20 years younger and without kids....) Its definitely easier to go from festival to festival making and selling those types of weaves than if you had to lug around a metalcrafters studio.