Wires
for cake
jewellery
Some of the most dramatic cakes are decorated with beaded fountains,
crowns or garlands made from different weights and colours of wires. Listed
below is our ever expanding range of wires used in this and many other
crafts
Please use the search box on
the right to help you find products in Lindy's Online shop
Soft wires to make garlands & cake
crowns
Bullion Wire:
£3.00
Used by many crafts from flower arranging, knitting to card making. Follow one
of the latest trends in cake design by using this wavy wire to make attractive
garlands.
Lindy demonstrates using bullion wire to make garlands in her new cake jewellery
gems DVD Go on be adventurous!!
Click on picture to enlarge
28g &
34g Beading Wire
28g - silver £2.00 - Gold £2.50 34g
- silver £0.75 - Gold £0.80 (24 yards on a reel) Click on picture to enlarge
The
34g is very fine wire - ideal for garlands when you don't wish to make a feature
of the wire. The 28g wire, along with the three wires below, is excellent for wiring cake crowns together
0.315mm coloured
copper craft wire
£3.50
(70 meters - 50 grams)
A beautifully soft smooth wire, ideal for creating cake crowns as it twists easily
and is available in a number of excellent colours.
New - 5 more exciting colours: Ice blue, warm silver, deep
purple, deep magenta & black (not shown)
0.4mm
Jewellery Wire:
Gold Plated £5.50
All other colours £2.50
(20 meters) Similar to the above -
but slightly thicker and stiffer to use, perhaps not so easy for
beginners, but it does make your work stronger and is ideal for heavier
beads.
Wires to make Cake
Crowns and wire decoration
Strong Jewellery Wire
3m x 1.2mm Gold Plated £5.50
3m x 1.2mm silver Plated £2.50
4m x 1mm copper £2.50
Use
as a base wire for cake crowns, see pictures above and below. This is the
wire that you bind all your beads and wire scrolls etc too.
0.6mm Jewellery Wire
Gold Plated £5.50
All other colours £2.50
width 0.6mm, length 10m. A
medium strength wire ideal for creating scrolls and coils Click on pictures to enlarge
Please note that we are replacing this wire with the one below so not all
the colours are still available.
0.5mm coloured copper craft wire
All 30 colours £2.50 each width 0.5mm, length
15m. A
medium strength wire for creating beaded cake toppers also good for creating scrolls and coils:-
"really nice to work with and Great colours!" Click on picture to enlarge
2 Newcolour: Ice blue and warm silver (not shown)
0.5mm
Metallic Reel Wire (100g)
£4.75
A similar wire to the above but slightly stronger, due to its mild steel
core. Just the right for using with
the beads we supply or use to make wire decorations such as seen below.
Please note that we are
discontinuing this wire as we prefer to use the 0.5mm craft wire above - not all
the colours are still available.
Wires to make Cake fountains
Floristry Wire £2.00
36cm Straight
covered wires ideal for creating fountain cake toppers such as on the
‘Christening Gift’ cake & the ‘Golden Wedding’ cake in Lindy’s Celebrate
with a Cake book
50 wires in a packet except 22g
& 18g packets which have 25 wires
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New metallic colours just arrived: Hot
Pink/Fuchsia, Kingfisher/light blue and Light Green
Other Wires
2mm
x 10m Aluminium Wire
Uncoloured/silver £5.90 Coloured £7.90 Easily bent wire, just right for creating cake toppers. Click on picture to enlarge
1.5mm
x 3m Aluminium Wire
£2.00
As used to make Lindy's
Sparkling fish from her book 'Cakes to Inspire and Desire'
Now available in ten exciting colours.
Tiger
tail (10m):
£2.75
A 3 strand very flexible nylon coated wire, use
with crimps to create ‘floating’ decorations
