Wire Wrapped Bracelets Collection

Wire Wrapped Bracelets Collection
Instructor: Francesca Faucette
Saturday, July 25 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Single-Session Workshop
Spend the day learning the art of wire wrapping while creating a beautiful collection of bracelets with its own personality, from fun and flirty to simple, classic, and bold. This hands-on workshop is designed to build your skills step by step. You’ll begin with the fundamentals of wire wrapping and gradually move into more sculptural techniques, gaining confidence as you work with different wire types, gauges, and textures. Along the way, you’ll explore how to shape, size, and design pieces that reflect your own style, whether delicate and minimal or more expressive and dramatic. Materials used in class will include practice (faux) wire, giving you the opportunity to build confidence before working with precious metals on your own. Wire wrapping requires only a few simple tools, making it an accessible and portable craft you can continue exploring beyond the workshop.
Projects include:
- Neo-Classic Wire Wrapped Bracelet: Your foundation piece. Learn the basics of wire wrapping, including how to control and shape wire, understand different gauges and materials, and construct a balanced bracelet design. Add visual interest with twisted wire for a subtle, filigree-inspired finish.
-Infinity Bracelet: Build on your skills by creating an interwoven infinity design. This project introduces simple wire sculpting techniques and helps you refine your control and shaping.
- Butterfly Wire Wrapped Bracelet: Take your skills a step further by hand-sculpting wire into soft butterfly wing shapes. Finish your piece with thoughtfully placed beads to create a light, detailed design.
Skills you’ll learn:
Basic wire wrapping techniques, wire control, twisting, sizing, shaping, sculpting, finishing, and polishing.
What you’ll take home:
One Neo-Classic Bracelet, one Infinity Bracelet, and one Butterfly Bracelet.
Skill Level: Beginner – no experience required
Age: 18+
Member Rate: $135
Non-Member Rate: $150
Material Fee: $35 (paid directly to the instructor on the day of the workshop)
Registration Deadline: July 18
Class is conducted off-site at a satellite location, Studio Navarri:
This workshop will be conducted at Studio Navarri — a small private jewelry studio designed to inspire creativity, craftsmanship, and artistry. Whether you’re curious about jewelry making or dreaming of becoming a jewelry designer and artist, Studio Navarri has everything you need to begin your journey. Inside the studio, students will find two fully equipped jewelers benches where they can get a true feel for the craft and learn how a professional bench is set up. They’ll work with a Foredom Flex Shaft — the jeweler’s version of an ultra-powerful Dremel.
Students will gather around a large farmhouse table with plenty of room to spread out, create, learn, and share ideas in a relaxed and inspiring atmosphere. Studio Navarri also features a finishing and polishing machine with built-in vents to help students achieve an incredible high shine, plus a rolling mill for creating beautiful textures and patterns in metal. Add in great lighting, a welcoming creative atmosphere, and our adorable little studio puppy, Kinki, for the perfect place to learn, create, and be inspired. Come experience the magic of jewelry making at Studio Navarri!
About the instructor
Francesca is a designer at heart and has been creating jewelry since early 1999. She is mostly self-taught, although she has taken workshops in almost all mediums. Francesca works intuitively, gathers inspiration and twists, turns, bashes, and burns it until she gets the desired outcome. Her work is bold, expressive, and filled with texture! Francesca has taught in the Carolinas, at national bead shows, and for almost 2 decades in the Nashville area as Francesca Lynn and has recently relocated back to the home of her heart, East Tennessee, where she started Studio Navarri.