r/WireWrapping • u/The-Skull-Foundry • Jun 09 '26
I thought I knew how to improve it. The answer wasn't the beads
Yesterday I posted these bracelets because something about the green one was bothering me, but I couldn't work out exactly what. A lot of the comments pointed out things like bead spacing, tension, alignment and colour, which got me looking much more closely at the piece. all were correct answers but it the root of the problem.
In the end I tried something I hadn't done before and used AI to remove all the beads from both bracelets so I could only look at the underlying wire structure. Once the beads were gone the problem became obvious. A few bends in the green weave were much larger than the others, which then affected the bends around them and threw off the rhythm of the whole piece. The beads weren't causing the problem, they were just making an existing structural issue easier to see. I thought some of you might find the method useful if you ever have a piece that feels wrong but you can't quite work out why.