Creating a beaded necklace requires time, patience and the right tools, but is something nearly anyone can learn to do with ease. Follow these simple steps to learn more about how to create your own beaded necklace.

Tools and Supplies
Before you can start making your necklace, it is important that you have the right tools and supplies available. This will ensure you bead a excellent necklace that will last a long time. You will need the following items: jewelry wire, beading needle, beading thread, beads, beading design board, a flat surface to work on, craft glue, scissors, and a pair of flat nose pliers.

Step One: Cut Your Jewelry Wire
Choose the length you want for your necklace, making sure to have an additional several inches to work with to make beading easier.

Step Two: Make Sure You Have Enough Beads and Lay Out the Design
Check to make sure you have plenty of beads and use the bead design board to lay out the beads flat. This will keep the beads from rolling away and making a mess. This will ensure you are able to complete the entire length of the necklace before you actually start beading.

Step Three: Knot the Jewelry Wire
Tie a knot at one of the ends of the jewelry wire. Take a pair of scissors to cut off any extra wire. Keep the knot at the end of the wire, and make sure it is tight so you don’t have to worry about it coming undone. Add a bead to the necklace and pull the wire through the open hole so the knot can rest against the bead. It is a good idea to apply a little craft glue and let it dry to ensure the knot doesn’t come undone.

Step Four: Bead the Necklace
String the beads while threading on the opposite bead tip to ensure that the strung beads do not face the open end of the tip.

Step Five: Attach the Tip and Clasp
Tie a loose knot in the wire end. Push the knot down into the bead tip with a straight pin. Ensure the knot is resting against the hole. Trim any extra remaining wire. Use the pliers to close the bead tip.

These bead tips should be attached to both ends of the thread, as one will allow the clasp to attach and close the necklace, while the other will hold the clasp.

Attach one of the clasp pieces onto a bead tip hook so that the loops are attached to each other. Use pliers to close the rings, one over the other. Do this again for the other clasp at the opposite end of the necklace.

Tips and Tricks
Beads that go by the name “clam shells” or “oyster shells” are easiest for novice beaders because of their size and shape.

To make an even stronger necklace, double your jewelry wire strand.

To make the beads a lot easier to string, add glue to the one to two inches on the end of the wire and allow it to dry. Since it will stiffen the wire, the beads will be easier to string.

Photo: Monica Fiorella Jewelry/Flickr

Many teachers are required to wear l.D. badges. Wouldn’t they love to consider that badge a piece of Jewelry instead of a nuisance?

Creamy white pearls and bright gold beads дге strung to form the go-with-everything necklace strap.
Thirty inches fits easily over the head but the magnetic clasp will safely break away if the badge holder becomes entangled. Use woven or braided cord or matte black beads for the guys. The brightly painted wooden apple with pressed glass leaves is fitted with a large jump ring to accommodate
the clip on the badge. A large variety of wooden shapes are available if you wish to create a similar badge holder for other professions.

Materials needed…

• 2 grams Gold silver-lined seed beads, size 11

• 22 freshwater pearls. Each * 6 mm

• 44 gold corrugated rounds, 3mm

• 2 Gold crimp beads

• 3G” braided beading wire

• 1 Magnetic clasp.

• 2 Green pressed glass leaves with hole
from stem to point

• 2 Gold eye pins, each 4* longer than
your leaf beads

Tools:

• Rat or chain nose pliers

• Round nose pliers

• Wire cutters and eye protection

• Paintbrush if needed

• Thread

Have you ever thought of decorating your Easter Eggs with beads? Today’s post will be about it. Decorating easter eggs with beads is rather interesting work and in the end you will get an eggs that will have unique design.

We should need:

small beads № 10-11

small needles

and of course eggs

This post is for those, who is interested in creating unique beaded trees on their own.
So if you decide to create such a beaded tree, you will need the following materials:Beads of green color (some shades we will preliminary mix),wire, Floristic tape of brown color, Scotch tape, glue, colored stones, slides (or any other decorative elements)

Lets begin to create our own unique  beaded tree! The wok is very long but the result will be amazing.

1.Cut 200 pieces of wire( approximately 45cm).Make the beads slip through each wire to make 7 loops with 8-9 beads in each piece. Make this 200 times. This will be the brances of our future beaded tree.

Our next step is to connect this piece of wire with beads and create a beaded tree.

Not connect “small” branches in more bigger ones. You can easily manage to do it with the help of Scotch tape.

Article Source: MyTrollBeads.Net

Before that post, I have been posting about glass beads, about making some jewelry using glass beads. Glass beads are quiet unique type of beads and differ from each other by size, design and shapes.  So what about making glass beads?  have you ever seen or just interested in making glass beads?  It is quiet an interesting process which you can see at the video.

Let’s see how glass beads are made:

Today we are not going to make beaded jewelry. We are to make something special: beaded furniture.

The beaded furniture, that we are going to create is rather small, about 2 inches (6-7 cm). But the size of your beaded furniture depends on the types of beads that you have chosen.

So, stop talking and let’s start our business.

The first thing that we should do is to choose which type of beads you are going to use. In this lesson, I have used ordinary rounded beads… Learn more about different types of beads.

make 4 more and connect to each other:

This way, we should make 5 rows and connect them. look at the picture

Then just follow the pictures. There is nothing different:

I wont to share with you a beading pattern of beautiful necklace-Black Widow.

So, what we will need.. You can see it at the picture

The number that you see are sizes of beads.

Beadwork is the art  of attaching beads  to cloth, usually with the use of a needle and thread or soft  wire. Most beadwork takes the form of jewelry or other personal adornment, but beads are also used in wall hangings and sculpture.

Beadwork techniques are  divided into loom and off-loom weaving, stringing, bead embroidery, bead crochet, and bead knitting.

Many cultures have employed beads for personal adornment. Archaeological records show that people made  beads as long as 5,000 years ago. Beads in ancient times  have also been used for religious purposes, as good luck talismans, and as curative agents.

Modern beading

Modern beadwork is often used as a  hobby to create jewelry, purses, coasters, and dozens of other crafts. Beads can differ from each other in many different designs, sizes, colors, and materials, allowing much variation among bead artisans and projects. Simple projects can be created in less than an hour by novice beaders, while complex beadwork may take weeks of meticulous work with specialized tools and equipment.

A variety of beads gives to needlewomen unprecedented  open space in creativity. Thats why the spheres of its application have spreaded outside the limits for a long time habitual weaving of bracelets and an embroidery on clothes. All new and new technicians make a rich palette of colours of beads, a variety of its forms, fine compatibility with many materials. The bugles and a beads widely use in an interior, knitting.

Making beads does not demand special skills unless there is some patience and taste of art. It is unessential to begin work with expensive Czech or Japanese beads, it is possible to be trained on old beads or large beads. Schemes of beads making, from unpretentious, to clear only to the professional, are on many sites. Besides beads in work it is possible to use bugles, cabin, medium-sized beads, stones-kaboshony, pearls and other materials.

To Make Beaded toys it is better on a copper or steel wire then the toy well holds the form and costs on an equal surface. Bracelets and a necklace spin on an elastic band, a scaffold, a monothread or a usual thread for sewing. Each material has advantages and lacks.. The embroidery and weaving turn out is better if for a basis the sewing thread undertakes. She well feels a tension, works turn out equal and strong.

Needles that are used to work with beads differ from the sewing ones. Usually they are very thin, such that can pass through beads  and easily drag behind itself a thread.

Before starting the first serious work, try to train on samples. Weave 2-3 numbers in several technicians, look which of them  will be more pleasant for you? Probably, you begin to spin all works as an easy openwork chain-dagger, or on the contrary become the fan of dense thorough mosaic weaving. After were defined with technicians, it is possible to start ornament weaving, at last.

For work with beads are necessary:

- The scheme printed on a paper. So easier to trace numbers which you have already weaved. It is possible even to delete them.

- A beads or bugles according to colours on the scheme.  Tt is better to put Beads in flat capacities on colours (covers from  saucers) or on a slice of a fleecy fabric – a thick woollen cloth, a velvet. Then they will not run up on a table and they will be easy for stringing on a needle.

- A thread, a scaffold, a wire or a monothread.

- A beaded needle

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– Scissors

–And the patience.  it is necessary  attribute of the beginning needlewoman much.
Good Luck!