Fibular Pin Designs
The term Fibular comes from the Latin term, fibulae,
referring to brooches. While the
overall structure of a fibular pin is limitless to your imagination (just do an
image search the term “Fibular Pin” in a search engine and see the thousands of
different styles that come up!), every fibular pin has the same technical
components: Hinge, Body, Spring and Pin.
The body is the flat plate between the hinge and
spring where, in beaded and wire worked pins, most of the decoration occurs.
The hinge, located at one end of the body section,
will have some kind of cup, hook or other structure to tuck the pin end into to
keep the pin secured shut. This part
can also be extremely fancy and beaded.
It is often hidden in a brooch design.
Start out in affordable copper wire purchased from an electronics hobbyist shop called transistor wire. It is cheap and coated in a clear plastic coating so the copper does not discolour.
The tutorial shows you how to start the bezel setting for the found object to sit on and the literally spiral around building up a cup that will encase the found object inside. Then finally use the remaining wire as a simple bail.
