Beading: a master class and tips for beginners

Create beautiful, enchanting bead items of different sizes and are called beadwork. This ancient art form has been reborn in the modern world. From beads create more and more new products: jewelry, paintings, three-dimensional figures, hair clips and accessories. Mastering the beadwork, the master class given in this article reveals the secrets of this art. This kind of creativity can be not only a hobby, a hobby, but also a way of earning money. After all, many willingly acquire original and unique handmade things.

Features of the

tool Before you get started, you need to consider several points:

Choosing a needle

To create jewelry and embroidery, you need a special needle for beading. It differs from the usual one in that it is much thinner than it and the eye does not differ in diameter from the main "body" of the needle. Needles are numbered, the larger the number, the thinner the needle.

Bead selection

Beads differ in quality and in size. The best quality is Japanese, Czech and Italian beads. But their price is also correspondingly high. Chinese beads are cheaper, but its quality is much worse than expensive beads. In what is worse: even at the first glance at the beads, it is noticeable that beads of different shapes come across, with different hole diameters and in some cases even a different shade. This beads should be carefully sorted before work.

Choice of thread, wire

There is a special thread for weaving. It's called monofilament. This is a kind of line, but much thinner than it. It can be of different colors and thickness. The choice of thread depends on the size of the beads to be used, and what will be produced. The same applies to the wire. It also has different thicknesses and colors;

Some tips for beginners

During beading master classes, on which weave products, do not take into account some small things that can sometimes make it easier for beginners. Here are some tips for beginners:

In order to ensure that they do not fly off when tying beads onto a thread, you can make a small knot at the end of the thread, which can then be cut off if necessary;

If the line or monofilament, cut off from the reel, strongly twists, pull it slightly enough for both ends. Thus, it will be more convenient to work with it;

Sometimes during beadwork errors occur, strung a string of beads on the wrong color. In this case, do not stretch the needle with the thread back to the beginning. So you can confuse the thread completely. It is better to remove the needle from the thread, release the beads of the wrong color, put the needle on the thread and start again. In the photo, this situation becomes clearer.

In order to add a new thread, when the old one ends, it is necessary to extend the old thread deep into the product. Then you need to bring a new thread through the beads to the old one, tie them in a strong knot, cut off the old thread, and pull the new thread to the working point. At the end of work, the working thread in the same way through beads extends deep into the product, a knot is tied, then a couple of beads are passed through the thread and cut off.

Master class simple key fob

Such a key chain on the keys or mobile phone will charge positive emotions. It's very easy to do it yourself, following this master class. For this you will need:

- Fine round beads of yellow and black colors;

- Line or monofilament of light shade;

- 10 kopeck coins or foam rubber, cut off in the shape of a smiley face;

- Scissors;

- Needle.

Beading will be done using a simple "cross" chain. So, on the line are typed 4 beads - 2 yellow and 2 black. Now they are enclosed in a circle, passing through a needle through a black bead in the opposite direction.

Next, following the scheme and photos, you need to weave the smile itself and the same shape of the part of its reverse side completely from the yellow beads.

Now both parts are connected. To do this, take a piece of fishing line and one of its end is inserted into one piece, the other into another, then in a direction to each other through an additional bead thread is tightened.

So you have to walk around in a circle, leaving a piece for the coin. After the coin is inserted, the weaving of the smiley ends.