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Spun tin thread used primarily for tin thread embroidery and braided jewelry. It is usual that the thread is made of tin with an element of 4% silver, providing a better gloss. Tin wire is usually nickel. Spun yarn to spin the thread of metal has been done for a long time. Already during Viking times, there is evidence that spun pewter has been used to decorate clothing in Scandinavia. While silver and gold threads were used throughout the Nordic region seems Sami been alone in Scandinavia question of using tin wire. Sami website Sápmi describes how the wire was manufactured in earlier times: A sprig of alder or birch was cut longitudinally and the marrow scraped out. The halves were bonded together foxtown outlet again as a long tubular mold created. In this form the poured molten tin and lead. When tin rods cooled down, they could be pulled through a draw plate, made of horn. The rods were drawn through smaller and smaller holes until a thin thread created. (Even if the machines currently used to manufacture metal wire as used today tensile plates for pulling wire, including by goldsmiths and silversmiths.) With the help of spin cross or dragonfly then spun the thin wires around a core of reindeer sinews or, later, bear thread . Today, modern methods in manufacturing, but the principle is the same with thin metal wire that are twisted around a textile core. Since the thread is spun unlike threads entirely of metal, it may also be a characteristic spiral pattern, which is clearly visible in the close-up below. Sizes The textile kernel used can be varied in thickness to provide various coarse thread. It is also that given as indication of size rather than actual wire diameter. If the size of the wire antenna is specified as 0.3 mm, it is about 0.7-0.8 mm in diameter. 0.35 mm wire is about 0.9-1.0 mm and 0.4 mm wire approximately 1.05-1.15 mm. (Source: Panduro Hobby) Not only tin addition to tin wire is also spun copper wire common. This thread is the same as tin wire, but is usually not as many thicknesses. The copper wire is available in a light and a dark variant and can also be colored, "enamelled", in a variety of colors. In the photo at the top is for example a black copper wire in the middle. There are also gold thread. The price reveals that it is not about some higher carat levels, but at least a seller in hand that it would actually found an ounce of gold in the thread (9 k) and that the name is not only descriptive. How to make jewelry of tin wire Want to know more about braiding and how you manufacture the popular pewter bracelets so you can find information about this in the post Tenntrådsflätning - pewter foxtown outlet thread embroidery.
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