I won the steel wire.
Now what?
http://www.seafore.com/wire/wire.html : exuberant and encouraging
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/directory/library/subject/72 : this is a very skilled metalworker’s instruction with points on drawing the chain through a draw plate and annealing.
http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa030197.htm : *sigh* about sites are “noisy” but useful for the beading references
(And maybe i should be browsing here: http://www.crochetme.com/ and http://www.crochetme.com/back_issues.html)