We offer simple patterns for beginners. They are understandable even to a child, and if you have patience and determination, you can easily weave a wide royal bracelet, collar necklace or headband based on this pattern. You will be very surprised at how enjoyable and inspiring as well as calming the activity is. beading.
How are beaded bracelets made?
Do you know that to create all kinds of beaded products (necklaces, clothing and interior decoration) only two basic techniques are used? Of course, it seems as if there are an innumerable number of them.This impression comes from the combination of two basic techniques and color variations. Using a name bracelet as an example, we will study one of these techniques - mosaic. Using the example of an embroidery letter, you can construct a weaving pattern for any other name yourself.
Join this wonderful craft. After bracelets, you can move on to more voluminous ones and make products with complex designs (for example, earrings).
Everything you need in beadwork:
1. Beads and bugles (for a medium-length bracelet: 50 pieces of black beads - significantly less than a standard bag, and 1 bag of pink beads, as well as 100 pieces of blue or lilac beads);
2. Fishing line (you can use beading needles, they will speed up weaving);
3. Scissors, saucers for laying out beads;
4. Sewing hooks.
For weaving with beads, it is important to have good lighting at the work table, a large and fenced (or, for example, covered with fabric) work surface that will prevent the loss of beads falling out of the fishing line.
Weaving algorithm: step by step according to photo and diagram.
1. Pour the beads from the bags into open containers, cut off the fishing line and, following the diagram, weave the first row using the two ends of the fishing line.
2. In total, we will weave 5 more rows of the bracelet according to the mosaic pattern, but the most difficult thing is not to make a mistake in the first row, which will become the basis for easily weaving a name into the bracelet. You can use glass beads (1 glass bead = 2 standard beads), which will surprise you with the time savings; besides, decoration made from beads of different shapes looks especially elegant. This is what the top horizontal row of the bracelet looks like.
3. When the first row is ready to fit the wrist size, secure the fishing line and add blue beads using another piece of fishing line.
We thread the fishing line into the outermost blue row and run it along it, adding a bead through each pair of those already woven in the fabric.
4. More details about weaving using the mosaic method of the second and subsequent rows based on the woven first: two ends of the fishing line are also used.
Another example on blue beads: two beads are woven with two fishing lines - simultaneously in opposite directions. Then put two beads on the side end of the fishing line, and thread the end of the fishing line, which is closer to the product, into two beads of the already woven fabric. Then we thread the next two beads again at the same time. The entire bracelet is woven in this way.
5. In these patterns for weaving letters, gray circles outlined in black indicate additional beads that will be woven at the end of the work according to the method described in the previous step.
6. This method makes any pattern clearer and the text more readable. You can see the difference in the following photos. In the second, we wove additional black beads.
7. Name woven into a beaded bracelet.
8. Sew on a pair of hooks. They do not require fasteners, since the hooks are ideally attached to the beaded fabric.
9. After completing the product, tie the knots tightly. If the fishing line is thin and the product made from it is soft, then braid the fishing line a second time, tightening the fishing line tightly, strengthening the shape of the bracelet and the durability of wearing it.
