Tiger tail wire (also called tiger tail or tiger-tail) is a thin wire encased in nylon often used in beaded jewellery, and particularly suited to stringing heavy beads and sharp beads, which tend to fray other kinds of thread.
[2] Some tiger tail has multiple intertwined wire threads under the nylon coating.
[7] Among the types of wire used for bead stringing, tiger tail is the most common.
[8] Tiger tail is easier to use than many other kinds of thread, and it does not require the use of a sewing needle.
[9] Tiger tail has high ultimate tensile strength and is therefore extremely difficult to tear,[10] but if it is creased or twisted, tiger tail has a tendency to kink and then become brittle in the kinked area.