Beading: hand-made crafts

In the magical world of beads are connected the versatile facets of human talent. Beading, crafts, like any other craft, requires special knowledge, skills and practical skills. Thanks to beading, you can easily weave not only excellent ornaments woven in rare and complex techniques, but also a variety of things for the interior and even toys for children. Remember, the main thing in this business is your assiduity, diligence, and in everything else you will be sure to help our recommendations.

Today we decided to share with you beadwork and handicrafts with our own hands, tell you how you can easily and without problems make for yourself the original decoration.

General requirements

Beading in itself includes the use of beads of any size and color. By the way, from old, no longer fashionable beads, you can easily make new decorations with your own hands. For beadwork it is necessary to choose a thin needle with a long eyelet. You can do without needles, dipping the ends of the thread in the glue or nail polish. In the manufacture of items from beads use conventional thread or thin line, wire. If you want to give the thread firmness, grate it with wax.

All the patterns for jewelry should be prepared in advance. After selecting a picture, make a working pattern by translating the picture onto a piece of paper. Then select the matching colors of beads and boldly start to work.

Bead necklace with own hands

To make necklaces from beads, we need bugles, beads, beads, rice, threads (nylon, capron), cotton napkin, fishing line with a diameter of 0.15 mm, special needle, small scissors, pins with a round end, tweezers, wax, швензы (earrings with lockers for earrings), winding wire.

First of all, beadwork requires its workplace. The best choice is an ordinary table. On the left, we set the lamp and make sure that the room is dimly lit. On the cotton napkin pour the beads. In the manufacture of complex bead products, a board covered with a thick layer of soft fabric is used. It fastens the product with pins.

We wipe the thread with wax. To this end, we thread the needle and make one end 20 cm longer than the other, then take the wax and squeeze it a little from the needle, stretch the thread through the wax. We repeat this process several times.

On the waxed thread string and fix one bead, passing it twice through the thread. We type six or eight beads to make a loop or five or six to get a "denticle". We pass a needle and thread to the last bead from the main row. Repeat stringing of beads until the end of the weaving. At the moment of increasing the number of beads, we get a big loop. As a result, we have a simple necklace, which we design using suspension from drops.

In order to get a chain in one thread for a cross, we type on the thread an even number of beads. We pass the needle with the thread through the 4th bead in the direction from top to bottom, stretch the thread and unfold the chain in such a way that our thread again has a direction from left to right. After we collect one bead and let's pass the needle through the 6th bead. Again, unfold the chain, string one bead and continue the weaving in a similar sequence to the end of the row.

The chain "boat" or "ringlet" is different from the "cross" in connection with the huge number of beads that are between two adjacent bundles. We use beads or two beads as a bunch, in other words, we stretch the needle and thread not through one but through two beads. Having mastered this technique of weaving, you will be able to make with your own hands on its basis fascinating jewelry and products.

And finally, some useful tips. If your thread or fishing line passes with difficulty through the eye of the needle, it must be cut with the help of sharp scissors diagonally. But the locks on your necklace you can easily replace the hooks, which are sewn to pieces of braid. Just to these pieces of braid on the other hand you need to sew the ends of the beaded braids. This approach will certainly improve the look of your product.