Making of different type of Metallic French wire for Embroidery & Jewelry embellishments.
Original French wires were made from real silver and gold bars in earlier times. But with pricing going up the alloy metal got changed. These days you will get French wires made from Iron or from Copper alloys. Never buy metallic wires made from Iron because they rust very fast and doesn’t have long shelf life. You can always find out about it by simple magnate test. The metallic wires made from copper are the best but they also have different quality standards. For ex: - silver metallic wires are best in shine and consistency when it has 10% real silver and remaining 90% copper. The silver metallic wire is usually the most expensive one in the lot. The manufacture must know that how much amount of silver to add in making wires because silver has a basic quality of turning black with time if its not polished regularly. So, that’s why the metallic wires shouldn’t be made from high consistency of silver also. Other color wires like gold, black, green; blue also has some percentage