Make your own unique and fashionable jewellery with colourful beads:
1. Necklace
Material:
a) Beading tray or household tray and fold of paper to hold beads
b) Shallow containers to hold small beads, jam or pickle jar lids are ideal
c) Beads as required for your own design
d) 2 calottes
e) 1 clasp
f) Woven – polyester beading thread of the required length
g) Gel and liquid superglue
h) Flat – nosed pliers
i) Sharp scissors
Method:
Gather the beads needed for your necklace. Place the larger beads, in order of threading, in the purpose – made grooved area of your beading tray or in your length of folded paper.
Place the small beads in the shallow containers (if you try to put them in with the larger beads they will roll out of sight beneath. For ease of threading, use the shallowest containers for the smallest beads. Measure out the required length of thread. The length given with each project allows for the tying of knots to the clasp --- if you are making your own design, don’t forget to allow an extra 15 cm for this.
At one end of your thread, tie two overhand knots, one on top of the other. Dab the resulting knot with a small touch of gel superglue (alternatively, you could use clear nail varnish to seal this knot) cut off spare thread.
Cover the knot with a calotte and use the pliers to squeeze it until it is closed and the thread is held securely.
Prepare the thread for threading by cutting diagonally across the other end using scissors. Dip the cut end of thread briefly into the liquid superglue to lightly coat approximately 5cm of thread. Allow to dry. When dry, the ‘glued’ end of the thread will become stiff enough to thread easily through the beads. Thread beads in the correct order.
When the threading is complete apply the second calotte, making sure that no spare thread is visible. To do this, just hold up the thread at the unfinished end and lift it to allow the weight of the beads to take up any stack.
Tie a double overhand knot as close to the last bead as possible. Touch the knot with the gel superglue and cover with a calotte.
The final task is to attach the clasp. Using the pliers, open either the loop on the clasp or the loop on the calotte to facilitate linking to open a loop sideways rather than outwards. This preserves its strength and makes accurate closing much easier.
1. Necklace
Material:
a) Beading tray or household tray and fold of paper to hold beads
b) Shallow containers to hold small beads, jam or pickle jar lids are ideal
c) Beads as required for your own design
d) 2 calottes
e) 1 clasp
f) Woven – polyester beading thread of the required length
g) Gel and liquid superglue
h) Flat – nosed pliers
i) Sharp scissors
Method:
Gather the beads needed for your necklace. Place the larger beads, in order of threading, in the purpose – made grooved area of your beading tray or in your length of folded paper.
Place the small beads in the shallow containers (if you try to put them in with the larger beads they will roll out of sight beneath. For ease of threading, use the shallowest containers for the smallest beads. Measure out the required length of thread. The length given with each project allows for the tying of knots to the clasp --- if you are making your own design, don’t forget to allow an extra 15 cm for this.
At one end of your thread, tie two overhand knots, one on top of the other. Dab the resulting knot with a small touch of gel superglue (alternatively, you could use clear nail varnish to seal this knot) cut off spare thread.
Cover the knot with a calotte and use the pliers to squeeze it until it is closed and the thread is held securely.
Prepare the thread for threading by cutting diagonally across the other end using scissors. Dip the cut end of thread briefly into the liquid superglue to lightly coat approximately 5cm of thread. Allow to dry. When dry, the ‘glued’ end of the thread will become stiff enough to thread easily through the beads. Thread beads in the correct order.
When the threading is complete apply the second calotte, making sure that no spare thread is visible. To do this, just hold up the thread at the unfinished end and lift it to allow the weight of the beads to take up any stack.
Tie a double overhand knot as close to the last bead as possible. Touch the knot with the gel superglue and cover with a calotte.
The final task is to attach the clasp. Using the pliers, open either the loop on the clasp or the loop on the calotte to facilitate linking to open a loop sideways rather than outwards. This preserves its strength and makes accurate closing much easier.
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