Trees from beads: sakura and birch

Weaving from beads is an amazing skill that has come to our lands from the East. Today, this art is practiced both on a professional level and as an exciting pacifying hobby.

From beads make ornaments for clothes and footwear, headdresses, and also bijouterie. A separate direction of beadwork - interior compositions, in particular, trees. These labor-consuming and fascinatingly beautiful products we will consider below.

Photo of trees from beads

Usually, bead trees are made in small or medium size, but there are also works of large sizes. As for the subject matter, it is the most diverse and in no way inferior to the variability of nature itself: Original topiarii in the form of bonsai trees (bansai) will be an ornament of a house decorated in oriental style.

A blossoming lilac will fill the house with a feeling of freshness and spring.

Weeping willows will convey the touching atmosphere of the Russian outback.

Acacia admires a unique combination of delicate flowers and spectacular crown.

Albizia fascinates with its southern beauty.

Orange is a juicy note in any interior.

Azalea is beautiful in a magnificent color.

Winter pine and herringbone or their frequent summer greens are especially appropriate as souvenirs.

Incredibly feminine wisteria is one of the most popular choices for beaded braiding.

Fantastic figures in the form of a heart or in another form, remotely resembling trees, give a huge field for imagination: from a gift to the newlyweds or a photo frame to a unique highlight of the ultramodern or futuristic interior.

Especially interesting are works that do not just mimic a particular tree, but are of particular importance. For example, sakura branches in Japan bear the secret meaning of innocence and honesty, birch in Russia is a woman, femininity, willow always brings light sadness and pacification, orange tree is a symbol of luck, jasmine carries modesty, jakaranda (jakardina) is the embodiment of secrecy, Money tree promises wealth, and spruce, especially if it is blue, means nobility. However, the most popular solutions for the embodiment in beads are traditional native Russian and native Japanese trees. It is birch and sakura that are most often presented as original ideas for working with weaving. The application can be found in a variety of ways - from decorating your own interior or collecting to selling as souvenirs and gifts. By the way, such elegant author's works are in great demand, and even when the master puts his work on the Internet, just to share them with subscribers, there are many who want to buy them for themselves or their loved ones.

Master class "Sakura tree from beads"

To make sakura from beads with your own hands, it is not necessary to learn for a long time or have golden hands. Lessons of weaving with schemes with great pleasure are laid out in the network of the master, who has already succumbed to this skill. Look at the video of the MC to understand that there is nothing difficult in mastery, more important is the idea, soul and patience.

Step-by-Step Photos: How to Make Sakura Beads

For beginners to learn a special practice of weaving cherry from beads, the instruction with diagrams and step-by-step photos can be useful, on which the proven schemes are presented:

1. The most laborious process is the weaving of future branches of a flowering tree, as the diagram shows.

2. When the blanks are already on the table, it's time to start forming twigs: light billets are expected to be assembled in three pieces.

3. We begin to form large branches: for the upper we twine two branches, for the middle of the crown - three, the lower ones include 5 main blanks.

4. It's time to form the crown and the trunk of the cherry blossom. To do this, we need a thicker wire, to which we tie the upper branches with the edge, then we cover all with a paint tape and we wind the middle parts over it. The procedure with the paint tape is repeated, and the lower branches are already in use, and on them again we glue the scotch tape.

5. Now the trunk needs to be installed in a pot and pour a solution of alabaster, without touching to complete drying. When the composition seizes, you can wrap all the branches with beads with food foil, so as not to get dirty during the further work.

6. It's time to treat the trunk with a special fixing solution from 1 tablespoon alabaster, 1.5 tablespoons of PVA glue and water to the state of thick, uniform sour cream.

7. The trunk of the tree we paint with brown acrylic paint, and the alabaster base is green, imitating the grass. You can also use decorative coatings on top of which to scatter beads of pink color - from a distance it will look like fallen leaves.

This is the end of the beaded sakura, and you can enjoy the work done.

Master-class "tree of birch from beads"

Another common variant of interior beadwork is feminine birches made in different sizes and styles. Unlike sakura, which is traditionally depicted in a gently pink color, a Russian tree can be dressed in yellow robes, as if now golden autumn, sprinkled with juicy spring-summer greens or sprinkled with snow if you are nicer in winter. To make such a craft yourself can even a person far from the ancient skill, if he does everything exactly as the master class recommends.

Step-by-Step Photos: How to Make a Bead from Beads

The progress of the birch making is almost completely identical with the algorithm for making cherry blossoms, as the step-by-step instruction shows:

1. The first thing to do is choose the color of the beads. Will it be an autumn combination of yellow and golden or snow-white whiteness and pearly radiance, or maybe a bright spring? Beadwork magazines note that yellow beads interspersed with the bulk of green are also beneficial.
2. After the action is repeated, as in the MC with cherry: produced blanks.

3. Several types of twigs are formed from them.

4. They are twisted gradually on the main, thicker wire, which can optionally be thickened with paint tape.

5. The trunk is installed in a pot and strengthened with alabaster, then it is smeared with a solution of gypsum or alabaster with PVA glue and a small amount of water.

6. The trunk is not painted in brown, but in black matte with acrylic paint. Above the dark background, a white dye is shaded with a dry brush so that it does not penetrate into depressions and irregularities.

7. For a more complete view, the base should be glued with glue or varnish and scattered in a green beads, as if stones were looking out of the juicy grass.

Of course, sakura and birch are far from the only beautiful and simple in the implementation of crafts made of beads. The same Christmas trees, blackberries or blossoming asters look no less spectacular. Try it, and you will succeed!