Making beaded products is a laborious and painstaking business. But as a result, from a small set of improvised tools, you can independently make the most beautiful decorative and souvenir products, for example, in the form of flowers and trees.
It is necessary
Beads of various shapes and colors, nylon thread, fishing line or copper wire, scotch tape or floral tape, manicure varnish, scissors for cutting thread or wire, pliers
Instructions
Step 1
Make a flowering Japanese sakura or Russian willow tree with its long branches out of beads. First, branches of a tree are woven from beads and copper wire. Depending on the color of the leaves or flowers on the tree, take a shade of beads. Beads can be mixed in color with each other to achieve an interesting effect.
Step 2
Beads are placed on a piece of wire. Loops are made through flat areas on the wire, for example, every half a centimeter or centimeter. The end of the wire remains free so that it can then be screwed to the tree trunk. You can connect the wire at both ends, then you get a different kind of branch.
Step 3
Make several blanks for future tree branches, the same as you made the first - about 50 or more. The workpieces are twisted together with 8-9 branches in each. Then, from all the blanks, you need to twist three large ones. In the end, other thinner branches of the tree are screwed to one volumetric trunk. The trunk is tied up with floristic tape or tape.
Step 4
The methods of strengthening the tree at the base can be different. You can pour gypsum mortar into the container and insert the finished tree into it. Or use clay, a mass of small river stones, sand, into which the tree trunk is also fixed. You can wrap one large flat stone with the free ends of the wire from the tree trunk. It will become its base and pedestal. If it is difficult to bend the wire at various stages of the work, use pliers to help yourself. The trunk of a tree can be varnished, oil paint.
Step 5
Flowers from beads are made according to the same principle, and for each type of flower there is a certain scheme for placing beads on a thread or wire. To make small chrysanthemums, use white beads for the flower petals, orange or yellow for the core, and some black beads for the center of the flower.
Step 6
Place white beads for each flower on one long wire. Loop the wire to separate each white petal. Separately set one black bead and the rest orange on shorter lengths of wire. Fold the bud out of the wire with white beads by wrapping it around the wire with orange beads to form a flower. Secure the resulting bud to a long, twisted wire stem. You need to make several such flowers in order to collect a bouquet.
Step 7
Flower stems are formed from twisted wire wrapped with tape, colored paper or foil and varnished. Ready-made beaded flowers are placed in baskets with earth, gravel, sand, they are placed in vases, colorful bottles, ikebana and wall panels are created from them.
