To get started, you need to buy:
- smooth cord;
- beautiful medium-sized beads (you can even use precious stones, the main thing is that the hole in the beads should not be small so that you can thread a cord through it);
- Moment glue or colorless varnish;
- sharp scissors.
Let's start making the bracelet.
1. Tighten three sections of cord (50 cm each) into a weak knot, leaving a free tail of at least 5 cm. The main thing is not to tighten the knot so that you can untie it without any problems. As shown in the photo.
2. Let's start tying knots. The first part of the knot: take the left cord and place it on top of the middle one, and then the right cord is used.We place it on top of the cord that was on the left, pass it under the middle cord and pull it out between the left and middle ones. Now carefully tighten the first part of the knot. To do this, pull the right and left cords in different directions (the middle one remains motionless). The result is the following design.
3. The second part of the knot is tied using the reverse technique. Now we draw the outermost cord on the left side (it was the right one at the previous stage) under the central cord. Now we take the rightmost cord and pass it under the left one and place it on top of the central cord. After this, we bring it all the way through from above into the loop that has formed between the middle and leftmost cords. Tighten the second part of the knot. This is what happens in the end.
4. Now we tie such knots in a row. Their quantity is individual for each decoration, usually 4 knots are enough as in the photo.
5. We string the first bead onto the middle cord and tighten it with the knots described earlier. The only difference is that the cord will fit around the bead on both sides, as shown in the photo.
6. Make a couple more knots and put on another bead again. We secure it with knots.
7. Repeat this process until the bracelet is the desired length. At this point, we stop adding beads and finish weaving the bracelet with four more knots. We confirm the final result. To do this, turn the bracelet over and tie a regular knot on the wrong side and secure it with glue or clear varnish. Then we cut off the tails. This is what we got.
8. We do the same procedure on the second side of the bracelet.
9. After the main work is done, the bracelet is almost ready. Decorate its ends with suitable smaller beads.We string beads onto the remaining parts of the cord on the right and left sides, and tie knots at the ends of the cord so that the beads do not slip off.
10. I prefer to fasten this bracelet to my hand using a shuttle clasp. In general, its weaving repeats all the same knots. We take the bracelet by the loose tails (as in the photo).
11. Next, we fix the cord measuring 30 cm, as shown in the photo.
12. Then we weave 4-5 knots and finish the work in the same way as we did before. This is what I got.
13. Very important!!! When weaving the lock, do not allow glue to get on the bracelet cord. Otherwise, the lock will simply stick to it and will not “move.”
All is ready. Here in the photo are two of my creations that are completely different, but made according to the same principle.
Try it and find your style. Good luck!
