Interesting material

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Tonight after a LAN party, my husband was getting ready to throw out some networking cable because something about it wasn't working, and I thought it might have some potential as craft materials.

I obviously underestimated its potential.

Inside each ugly grey network cable cover is four pairs of coated copper wires. Copper wire is nice to work with on its own but the covers are gorgeous. Each pair is twisted together, one of the pair is solid colour and the other is white with a thin tracing of the accent colour spiraling around it, and they come in blue, green, orange and brown. I figure it wouldn't take much to add some pretty beads, or to make pins or earrings out of the stuff. Maybe even braid together or weave some together.

Lovely stuff. :) Keep it in mind if an office renovates, or if you know of a computer services division in a building which might be willing to let you dispose of their nonfunctional cables... :)