Bullion Wire, Gimp Wires & French wires definition and uses in embroidery and jewelry making Online

 

All the above metallic wires are made from copper coiled wires and can be used in gold work embroidery & jewelry making according to your preference for your design.

French Wires: – Continuous round even surface, glossy and shiny finish. These will be some of the words that will come to your mind when you will see these hollow metallic goldwork Metallic French wires. Prefect for tambour hand embroidery and for French, you can say luneville embroidery. Due to there making process, these wires come in the length of 10 to 20 inches. Always cut these wires in small pieces (maximum length that can be used, I will say 1centimeter) with the help of sharp scissors and then you can pass the embroidery needle with thread through them to do goldwork embroidery for ornamental designs and couture textile embroidery. Because of their flexibility, these wires are used at the curve position in jewelry making to hide the base thread and to give a professional finish to the design.

Bullion Wires: – These are crinkled metallic wires also known as purl wires have been given textured surface like a heartbeat line on a monitor and that is their uniqueness. Bullion wires also come in a bundle of 10 to 20 inch length metallic wires and are cut in pieces according the designer’s requirement. Because of their ability to reflect light in different angles, these wires are very popular in hand embroidery from ancient times. All over the world, Kings, Queens and other important nobilities apparels, shoes and accessories were decorated with these gold work wires only. Prominent fashion designs from all over the world use these exclusive wires for their grandeur celebration of fashion. Tambour, Zardosi, Aari and other traditional gold work embroidery techniques are used for these purl wires.

Gimp Wires: – Also known as cannetille wire and in French, you call them jaseron wire. These are continuous hollow metallic wires and from close up there surface looks like that pearls are string together. The most important aspect of gimp wires is that they are stiff as compare to French and bullion wires. Also, these cannetille wires comes in continuous length. So, if you want metallic wires for goldwork embroidery with Gimp Wire that should be 10 meter long then YES you will get it. In goldwork embroidery, these stiff wires are popular to finish the edge of embroidery (mainly in brooches) designs that gives a very elegant finish.

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