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Quality materials made to last a lifetime.
This is the materials that used to be called "rolled gold" - a much less confusing term! This wire is made by rolling a layer of 14k gold around a base material, usually jeweler's brass.
The layer of gold in 14/20 gold-filled wire is about 100 times thicker than gold plate. It is a lifetime product for most people. Since everything touching your skin is 14k gold, only people with extreme sensitivity generally have any allergic reactions to this metal, unlike gold-plate.
*Red Gold-filled wire and solid 14k Gold are available upon request (Sorry - no White Gold-filled).
The wire is solid Argentium Silver, not layered. This is a type of Sterling Silver using the metal Germanium instead of Copper.
It has the same amount of silver in the mix (the .925 we all know to ask for), but because of the Germanium, it resists tarnishing. All of our pendants, bracelets and rings are now made with this type of 925 silver.
The story behind our handcrafted creations.
Wirewood was established by Randy & Sandy Aue. He was born and raised in Colorado, while she is a native Texan. Randy has always been adept with his hands; he worked at repair and maintenance work of all kinds through the years, but his personal hobbies always involved exploring the creation all around us with Sandy right beside him every step of the way.
They raised canaries, tropical fish and African violets, studied the stars through telescopes, and photographed everything around them. They designed landscapes, cultivated gardens, and even made a few pieces of furniture. But always, throughout everything else, they loved looking for beautiful rocks—especially petrified wood.
Their collection at home became quite extensive, and they realized they would have to find a way to do something with all these rocks. Eventually, that led to Randy teaching himself the skills of the lapidary (someone who cuts and polishes precious stones).
A short time after that, he read an article in a magazine that demonstrated the technique of jewelry making known as wire wrapping. The outcome of that is the business that came to be known as Wirewood—a name derived from the way they would make copper wire trees and mount them on pieces of petrified wood.
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