Beaded Jewelry by hand: creating your first masterpiece and beautiful photos of crafts

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In today's world, with the help of the latest technology, industry, especially Chinese industry, produces a lot of jewelry. But handmade jewelry is always exclusive.

Unique necklaces, stylish bracelets and bracelets, bright hairpins and rings, handbags and trinkets, paintings and panels, three-dimensional toys - all this can be created by hand without much cost. This creative process is very exciting, having at the output ornaments that exist in a single copy.

These crafts can be successfully practiced by grandmothers with their restless grandchildren. For children, beads are attractive with their many colors, shimmers.

It is very useful for the development of motor skills, assiduity, color perception. They can equally fascinate girls and boys. Future ladies will weave a lot of bracelets. Boys are interested in making three-dimensional toys and trinkets.

Set of necessary materials

Varieties of beads

Beads are a general term that often refers to small balls, cylinders, polyhedrons with through holes for stringing. It can be made of metal, plastic, glass, bone, wood.

The most common is round beads in the form of balls, slightly flattened at the through holes. The beads are divided into different sizes. Keep in mind that the higher the number, the finer the material. At the same time, different manufacturers can make the material in different sizes.

Beads come in transparent and opaque, mother-of-pearl with a slightly shiny finish like pearls. They can be made of opaque glass without any coating or shine.

Shiny beads with a glossy coating without overflow are also produced. Rainbow has a coating that shimmers like soap bubbles.

Brocade beads are made of transparent glass which is covered with a shiny paint.

Marble beads have a surface with stains and shades.

Chopped

This is the name of the beads, which are short cylindrical tubes up to 3 mm in length. It is divided into regular, faceted and oblique. The most elegant products will be made of faceted, sparkling like crystals.

Glass beads .

This is a kind of cylindrical beads, longer than the cut. A wide choice of size and shape. Faceted glass beads look very beautiful in products. But you need to choose strong strings, so that the piece won't tear by the raw sharp edges of glass beads and glass beads.

Beads .

Multicolored balls of regular shape, with a through hole, larger than beads.

Tools for making

• The threads used are synthetic and natural fiber. The advantage of synthetics is strength, durability. But they are slippery and lack elasticity, so the products do not hold their shape well.
• Natural ones do not slip, but they do not have durability. They are waxed with beeswax, through which the thread is pulled. This will give elasticity, and increase durability. But dust quickly settles on them, which contaminates them.
• Wire is needed to make figures and flowers. It gives any shape to the products. It must be thin, with no kinks.
• The fishing line is a strong transparent material, invisible in the finished products. To ensure that it does not tear, you can fix the product for 24 hours in the right position. The given shape will be preserved.
• Needles are used special, for work with beads. They are thin, with a very narrow and long eye, and vary in size.
• To store your needlework riches, buy caskets with many compartments.
• Sharp manicure scissors, glue, hardware.

Methods of beading

• They are distinguished by the number of threads and needles used (one or more).
• By the arrangement of beads:In a cross - a kind of dense grid with a cross-shaped arrangement of beads.
• Mosaic (beads are strung through one another).
• Weaving on 3-8 strings or in wide strips of up to 30 strings.
• Stringing with an openwork mesh.
• Stacking from bottom to top in the form of a cord.
• Weaving is an ancient technique. Self-made loom can be made from a board with a stuffed threshold of wooden slats, in which small nails are hammered.

Creating your first masterpiece

When you have decided to take up this beautiful and fascinating hobby, start with the simplest - create a bracelet from beads with your own hands. Many ideas and patterns can be found on the internet.

Not difficult for a novice craftswoman will be weaving bracelets from beads in the form of a chain. In it you can use any material - glass beads, beads, chopping of different sizes and colors.

You can weave a wreath of flowers that resemble daisies.

Some Beaded Bracelets Schemes

Scheme 1. wreath

The process of making a wreath:

1. String 4 small beads, fix the thread and pass it again through the first and second beads.
2. String 3 small beads and one round bead and pass the thread through the first bead.
3. Pick up 3 more small beads with the needle and pass the needle through the eighth bead in the opposite direction.
4. String 2 beads and pass the needle through both top beads (the eighth and twelfth).
5. Pick up 4 small beads and one large bead with the needle and pass the needle through the thirteenth bead. Then thread four beads and thread the needle through the eighteenth bead in the opposite direction.
6. String 2 beads and thread the needle through the twenty-second and eighteenth beads and through the two top beads. Then weave also to the end of the chain of desired length. When you are done, fasten the fishing line, fasten the clasp.

Scheme 2 - figure eight

A chain in a figure of eight or a diamond and a half.

1. String 10 beads (1 yellow, 2 blue, 1 yellow, 3 blue, 1 yellow, 2 blue). Thread the needle through the first bead in the opposite direction.
2. Pick up 6 beads (3 blue, 1 yellow and 2 blue). Thread the needle through the nearest yellow beads in the opposite direction.
3. Weave according to the scheme.

Important tips

For a novice with this kind of needlework, a beaded bracelet is not difficult to weave, but you must follow certain rules:

1. It is recommended to work with Czech beads, not cheap Chinese or Turkish beads. Low-quality material quickly fades and sheds.
2. When weaving make sure the beads fit together tightly, without sagging.
3. The thread should be stretched evenly.
4. Beads should be the same size.
5. Carefully count the number of beads.
6. Do not be lazy to unravel the product, making a mistake.

Photo of fashionable and beautiful beaded jewelry