Artistic wire can be shaped and braided for elaborate designs or used simply for wrapped loops and connecting. You can form artistic wire easily into jewelry components such as chain maille, beaded chain, jumprings, earwires, wire wrapped pendants and more. With a large selection of colors from which to choose you are sure to find just the right ones for your next design. Choose complementary colors or high contrast colors to bring your designs to life.artistic wire is permanently colored copper wire coated to prevent tarnishing. The silver plated colors are made by plating the copper wire with pure silver. Then a tarnish resistant coating is applied. The coating is engineered to resist tarnishing, chipping, and peeling and to stand up to coiling, spiral making, twisting, wrapping and other wire working techniques.the silver adds a vibrancy and beautiful high-shine to colors.