Baubles with bright patterns can serve as an addition to an ethnic costume or as a funny gift for your friends. Geometric patterns look good on beaded baubles made using the technique of monastery weaving. You can calculate the basis for such a pattern yourself.
It is necessary
- - paper in a cage;
- - beads;
- - fishing line.
Instructions
Step 1
In order to calculate a pattern for a narrow bracelet, shade seven rows of cells in a checkerboard pattern on a piece of paper. Monastic weaving is not continuous, but openwork, therefore, in the finished bracelet, the beads will be staggered.
Step 2
The easiest way is to weave baubles with repeating symmetrical patterns. Draw an ornamental element that will be repeated in the bracelet, highlighting a part of the shaded cells with a pencil or a pen of a different color. In order to visually highlight the beginning of the pattern in the resulting diagram, draw a vertical line in front of the beginning of the pattern.
Step 3
Choose beads of several colors for the baubles. Most of all, you will need beads in the background color. All beads must be the same size, otherwise the bracelet will be uneven. In order not to get confused in the weaving pattern, cover all the rows in the diagram with a ruler or a sheet of paper, except for the top three.
Step 4
Put on the fishing line three beads of the same color with which you marked the first shaded cells in the first, second and third rows from the top. Pass both ends of the fishing line crosswise into the second bead of the second row from the top. Move the resulting cross to the middle of the line.
Step 5
Place the second bead in the top row of the diagram onto the left end of the line. On the right end of the fishing line, put the second bead in the third row from the top. In the third bead of the second row, pass the fishing line crosswise. Continue braiding the bracelet this way until you have a chain that is long enough for the bracelet.
Step 6
Slip the beads on both ends of the fishing line and thread them crosswise into the first bead of the woven chain to make a ring. Pass the left end of the fishing line through the three beads of the next cross. Pass the right end through one bead so that the ends of the line are again threaded through the bead crosswise.
Step 7
Move the ruler on the diagram and open the next two rows of cells. The second row of the bracelet is woven in much the same way as the first. Instead of placing the bead on the left end of the line, thread the line through the side bead of the cross in the finished row.
Step 8
Secure the finished bauble by passing the fishing line through several crosses and tying the ends of the fishing line with a knot. Cut the line three millimeters from the knot and gently melt it over the fire.
