Making beaded jewelry does not require long training, and you do not need special devices for beading. Any person who has perseverance and loves hard work can handle this type of needlework. However, before you start making complex jewelry, you should learn the simplest techniques of lowering.
It is necessary
beads, bugles and small beads, needles, thread, needle threader, scissors, wax, pattern album, felt-tip pens or colored pencils
Instructions
Step 1
You can use beads of any size and color. Old, scattered beads will also come in handy for work, from which new jewelry will be obtained. The beads are stored in separate boxes, during work they are laid out in small sockets, saucers or on a fleecy cloth, from which it is easy to collect it on a needle. Needles should be chosen thin with a long eye. You can also string without a needle by dipping the end of the thread into nail polish or glue. Threads are used ordinary, as well as thin fishing line or wire. In order to give the thread elasticity, it is lightly rubbed with wax.
Step 2
Patterns for making jewelry should be prepared in advance, although many experienced craftswomen create them themselves during work. After you have selected a drawing, transfer it to paper and create a working pattern. First, prepare the canvas in the form of an oblique mesh. Then apply a pattern on it with colored pencils or felt-tip pens. It is best to fill the sides of the diagonal mesh rhombuses with circles corresponding to the number of beads in your future product. This will make it clearer and easier to work with.
Step 3
When picking up the beads on a thread, leave an end 5-6 cm. When you finish lowering, secure the end of the thread by passing it with a needle through the holes of several previously strung beads. Carefully cut off the remaining tail with scissors.
Step 4
During the lowering, the work should always be in the left hand, and with the fingers of the right, guide the working thread. Beads should be stacked tightly to each other, they should not sag on the thread. In order for the jewelry to have a beautiful shape, you need to select beads of the same size and exactly according to the count in accordance with the pattern. But you should not tighten the thread too much, otherwise the product will wrinkle.
Step 5
First you need to learn how to make the simplest products: a variety of bead threads and simple chains. And if you decorate single-colored bead strands with loops, pimples, crosses or flowers from colored beads, or join several bead strands using larger beads, you will get beautiful and fashionable beads.
Step 6
It is very easy to make beads with pimples. Cast on a string of radial beads of one color and 6 beads of a different color. Pass a needle and thread through the penultimate bead of the row and pull it. You will end up with a bump or loop that decorates the string of beads. In the same sequence, make the entire length of the thread. The length of the product depends on where it will be worn. Will it be a bracelet, a necklace, a belt, or maybe a strap for a sundress.
