Covering wires on wearables.

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Covering wires on wearables.

With Halloween and the inevitable lit costumes approaching, here’s a quick and simple method I have for covering colored wires, or keeping multiple wires together.

Get hold of the thicker, round boot laces in the color of your choice. I prefer black since most of my stuff is worn in the dark. If you cut off the ends, you’ll find a core that slides out and leaves the woven exterior layer behind. I just cut the lace “tube” to length and slip it over the wires for a flexible, professional-looking cover.

You can also give the ends of the tube a quick drop of super glue to prevent unraveling or, if it’s a synthetic material, sometimes cutting it with a soldering gun blade does the job.

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Buy cheap paracord. They even sell them without the inner strands. Perfect for holding together wires, as long as you’re not trying to hold together a large bundle of them.

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Or use woven polythene wire shield… really cheap, available in tons of colours, use a bit of shrink wrap to tidy the end. You can get it in sizes from about 1.5mm on up.