I'm attempting to string a freshwater pearl bracelet, the pearls are 8-10 mm in size and I'm using the Softtouch 'fine' wire as recommended by softflex as being suitable for knotting and I'm using the same knot technique that they demonstrate on their website.

However I'll get a few pearls strung and then the wire snaps when I'm trying to push the next pearl over the knot - this happened three times last night!

Am i missing something?

Grateful for any advice / tips as this is the first time i've tried to do this.