Super Softstrand, Vinyl-Coated Stranded Stainless Steel Picture Wrapping Wire, Size #5, 43 lb / 20 kg, 80 ft / 24 m

As the title says, its soft. The wire is very easy to twist, and the rubber coating ensures you dont get poked. I hung one 30x40 wood framed picture that weighs over 30 lbs, and it has held with ease. Highly recommended!

Easy to work with for wiring artwork to hang. No more poking fingers with sharp wire ends when using this plastic covered wire.

Not bad. Plastic sheath feels durable. Wires inside are kinda thick, so flexibility is mehh. Used the wire to rig my kayak rudder. Took it out once and so far so good.

Plastic coated and easy to put on your hangers. Twist nicely and look better than just plain old hanging wire. No edges sticking out.

I am currently using this to hang sheer curtains. With this and with a $3 box of eye screws, I have avoided expensive curtain rods. So far, its working well.

After using some wire that I already had in a picture hanging kit I had the misfortune to have my mirror crash to the floor. The wire had simply snapped in two pieces. Thankfully nothing broke as the mirror landed on the carpet. Realizing how lucky I was having a large object fall off a wall I decided to be much smarter about my second try. I matched the weight of the mirror to the type of wire. To be sure I would not have a future accident I weighed my mirror (20 lbs) and bought this Super SoftStrand (No. 5) hanging wire which is rated to hold pictures up to a maximum of 43 lbs. The wire tie off instructions are shown in four images on the front of the (80 ft.) spool. I still need a little extra help so I went to their website. The manufacturer recommends wrapping the wire around in tight circles eight full times (see image 4). Im very happy with my purchase and certainly now feel more secure with my mirror hanging on the wall. The plastic coated wire was both easy to wrap and cut to length using wire snips. Plus since the spool is only four inches across its easy to store for my next picture hanging project.

Great balance of strength and price.

Best there is!

I was used to buying large spools. This one turned out to be very small.

It was my first time purchasing and using this type of picture wire. It was expected and worked well. Most of all, I appreciated not getting any of those painful finger pokes by the end of the wire.