Hi Everyone!
So I’ve made a good start on the project finally…I found this cool ribbon that has wire in the edges, and curled it with the end of my hairbrush to make alpha helices. This picture only shows half of them because I ran out of ribbon, but my plan is to join them together with some electrical wire.
I like the silky, shimmery shininess. The craft store might carry some shiny stainless steel wire to match. (Electrical wire comes in a fairly limited range of colors. I discovered that when I re-wired my house last summer.)