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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Basic Jewellery Making
Basic Jewellery Making
This basic jewellery making article is a wonderful place to begin to learn all about the art of working with beads. It explains types of beading, and tools needed, perfect for a beginner.
Types of Basic Jewellery Making
Stringing: beads of all sorts of types and colours are strung onto a beading thread using pleasing designs and colours.
Beadweaving: this is sometimes known as seed beading. This includes a wide variety of weaves, including herringbone weave, brick stitch, peyote, netting, pondo stitch, right angle weave and square stitch. With the exception of two-needle right angle weave, these all require a needle and thread, and you weave in a similar way to sewing. Two needle right angle weave is usually not done with needles at all, a stiff thread is used, and the beads can be strung onto it without the use of a needle. There are also a huge range of spirals that can be made in all of the above weaves, as well as a few particular to spirals only. These include: Spiral rope, double spiral rope, triple spiral rope, flat spiral, Russian spiral, Dutch spiral, herringbone spiral, embellished right angle weave, Cellini spiral, Aussie spiral, netted spiral and African Helix.
Loom Beading: seed beads are woven into fabric using a loom. Some very intricate designs can be made.
Wire work and wire wrapping: This is where wire is used to created pleasing shapes and designs using wire.
Victorian Beading and French Beading: these methods ore often used to make beaded flowers. Wire is used, as well as seed beads. Victorian beading, also known as Continental Beading, is worked horizontally with both ends of the wire going through the row of beads. French beading is worked vertically with rows of beads worked around a central row of beads.
Chainmail: also known as chain maille. This is created by joining jump rings into intricate patterns.
What is a Bead?
Basic jewellery making usually includes beads. Basically a bead is a small decorative object that has at least one hole in it for threading. Beads have been used for jewellery for hundreds of thousands of years.
Beads can be made from all sorts of things, including: natural materials- such as bone, coral, seashells and nuts. They can also be made of synthetic materials such as: ceramics, glass, crystal and plastic.
Bead Types
Seed Beads: seed beads are the very tiny beads used in basic jewellery making and beadweaving. These are usually measured in either mm or aught sizes, eg. 11/0, which means number of beads per inch.
There are three main types of seed beads available:
* Japanese: these have a cylindrical shape and are very uniform in size. They have a large hole.
* Czech: these have more of a rounded shape with smooth edges. They’re sometimes described as being donut shaped.
* Chinese: these are the cheapest type of seed beads, but can be very uneven in shape and size. They are usually more Czech-shaped.
Bugle beads: these are long cylindrical beads, made in a range of lengths.
Shaped beads: these are made in any sorts of shapes.
Faceted beads: these have been cut and polished to give lots of reflection and shine.
Tools and Materials Required for Basic Jewellery Making
The tools needed for basic jewellery making vary with what is being made and the technique used.
Some basic tools and materials are:
Thread: some available types are: tigertail, aculon, monofilament thread and Nymo.
Crimp beads: these are small soft metal beads with a large hole that are used to squash the thread together to hold the finding in place.
Findings: these are all the components used in basic jewellery making to make things into jewellery, includes clasps, earring hooks and key rings.
Pliers: these are need for many things in basic jewellery making, including closing crimp beads. Two are usually needed to close jump rings.
Specific tools and materials:
Stringing: generally you don’t need much at all. Just your beads and thread, you’ll also need a couple of crimp beads and a couple of jump rings. You’ll need pliers to close the crimp beads and jump rings. You’ll also need clasps or other findings for your basic jewellery making, depending on what you’re making,
Beadweaving: For this you’ll need fine thread, beading needle, seed beads. You’ll also need the crimp beads and other findings the same as with stringing, depending on what you’re making.
Loom Beading: loom, thread and seed beads, and findings as required.
Wire work and wire wrapping: The wire can be craft wire, artistic wire, copper wire, or sterling silver wire. They are available in different gauges that measure the thicknesses. You will need pointy nosed pliers, and round nosed pliers to create spirals and loops. Wire cutters are required to cut the wire.
Victorian Beading and French Beading: Seed beads and wire are required for these. Pointy nosed pliers will be needed. If it’s going to be a flower, you’ll need a stiffer wire for the stem and some floral tape to wrap it.
Chainmail: This just requires lots of jump ring available in different sizes and gauges, as well as 2 pairs of pliers to close the rings. You’ll also need the findings as required.
A good beginners tutorial can be found here:
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2009/04/free-star-tutorial.html
This basic jewellery making article is a wonderful place to begin to learn all about the art of working with beads. It explains types of beading, and tools needed, perfect for a beginner.
Types of Basic Jewellery Making
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| Beaded Reindeer |
Stringing: beads of all sorts of types and colours are strung onto a beading thread using pleasing designs and colours.
Beadweaving: this is sometimes known as seed beading. This includes a wide variety of weaves, including herringbone weave, brick stitch, peyote, netting, pondo stitch, right angle weave and square stitch. With the exception of two-needle right angle weave, these all require a needle and thread, and you weave in a similar way to sewing. Two needle right angle weave is usually not done with needles at all, a stiff thread is used, and the beads can be strung onto it without the use of a needle. There are also a huge range of spirals that can be made in all of the above weaves, as well as a few particular to spirals only. These include: Spiral rope, double spiral rope, triple spiral rope, flat spiral, Russian spiral, Dutch spiral, herringbone spiral, embellished right angle weave, Cellini spiral, Aussie spiral, netted spiral and African Helix.
 |
| Bugle spiral |
Loom Beading: seed beads are woven into fabric using a loom. Some very intricate designs can be made.
Wire work and wire wrapping: This is where wire is used to created pleasing shapes and designs using wire.
 |
| wire work jewellery |
Victorian Beading and French Beading: these methods ore often used to make beaded flowers. Wire is used, as well as seed beads. Victorian beading, also known as Continental Beading, is worked horizontally with both ends of the wire going through the row of beads. French beading is worked vertically with rows of beads worked around a central row of beads.
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| Victorian beaded spider |
Chainmail: also known as chain maille. This is created by joining jump rings into intricate patterns.
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| Chainmail |
What is a Bead?
Basic jewellery making usually includes beads. Basically a bead is a small decorative object that has at least one hole in it for threading. Beads have been used for jewellery for hundreds of thousands of years.
 |
| Beaded Bead |
Beads can be made from all sorts of things, including: natural materials- such as bone, coral, seashells and nuts. They can also be made of synthetic materials such as: ceramics, glass, crystal and plastic.
Bead Types
Seed Beads: seed beads are the very tiny beads used in basic jewellery making and beadweaving. These are usually measured in either mm or aught sizes, eg. 11/0, which means number of beads per inch.
There are three main types of seed beads available:
* Japanese: these have a cylindrical shape and are very uniform in size. They have a large hole.
* Czech: these have more of a rounded shape with smooth edges. They’re sometimes described as being donut shaped.
* Chinese: these are the cheapest type of seed beads, but can be very uneven in shape and size. They are usually more Czech-shaped.
 |
| Beaded Brooch |
Bugle beads: these are long cylindrical beads, made in a range of lengths.
Shaped beads: these are made in any sorts of shapes.
Faceted beads: these have been cut and polished to give lots of reflection and shine.
Tools and Materials Required for Basic Jewellery Making
The tools needed for basic jewellery making vary with what is being made and the technique used.
Some basic tools and materials are:
Thread: some available types are: tigertail, aculon, monofilament thread and Nymo.
Crimp beads: these are small soft metal beads with a large hole that are used to squash the thread together to hold the finding in place.
Findings: these are all the components used in basic jewellery making to make things into jewellery, includes clasps, earring hooks and key rings.
Pliers: these are need for many things in basic jewellery making, including closing crimp beads. Two are usually needed to close jump rings.
 |
| Flower Brooch |
Specific tools and materials:
Stringing: generally you don’t need much at all. Just your beads and thread, you’ll also need a couple of crimp beads and a couple of jump rings. You’ll need pliers to close the crimp beads and jump rings. You’ll also need clasps or other findings for your basic jewellery making, depending on what you’re making,
Beadweaving: For this you’ll need fine thread, beading needle, seed beads. You’ll also need the crimp beads and other findings the same as with stringing, depending on what you’re making.
Loom Beading: loom, thread and seed beads, and findings as required.
Wire work and wire wrapping: The wire can be craft wire, artistic wire, copper wire, or sterling silver wire. They are available in different gauges that measure the thicknesses. You will need pointy nosed pliers, and round nosed pliers to create spirals and loops. Wire cutters are required to cut the wire.
 |
| Saint Bernard |
Victorian Beading and French Beading: Seed beads and wire are required for these. Pointy nosed pliers will be needed. If it’s going to be a flower, you’ll need a stiffer wire for the stem and some floral tape to wrap it.
Chainmail: This just requires lots of jump ring available in different sizes and gauges, as well as 2 pairs of pliers to close the rings. You’ll also need the findings as required.
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| Chainmail earrings |
A good beginners tutorial can be found here:
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2009/04/free-star-tutorial.html
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Free Tutorials
If you've used my free tutorials, I'd love to know. Please add comments at the end of the tutorial you followed, or at the end of this post.
I need to know if they are of value to people.
Let me know how well they worked out. Was it easy to follow? Any other comments?
Also, do you want more of them?
If you can spread the word, that would be great too.
I need to know if they are of value to people.
Let me know how well they worked out. Was it easy to follow? Any other comments?
Also, do you want more of them?
If you can spread the word, that would be great too.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Victorian Beaded Flower Tutorial
Victorian Beaded Flower Tutorial
Materials: Size 10/0 seed beads
1 x 6mm bead
28 gauge wire
Green floral tape
Stiff stem wire (optional)
32 gauge wire (optional)
Techniques: Victorian Beading
Difficulty: Medium
Step 1:
Cut 50 – 60 cm of the wire. Thread on 10 beads (4 for first row, and 6 for second row).
Take one end of the wire and go back through 6 beads from the opposite end of the wire, keeping them centred as much as possible.
Form a circle, by bending the beaded wire backwards, and pulling the wires taut. Try not to leave any space in the wire.
Bend both ends of wire to face past the second row.
Thread the beads for the 3rd row (10 beads) onto either wire end, pass the other end of the wire through all 10 beads. Bend as necessary, and pull taut.
Step 2:
Continue in this fashion, starting from the bottom of the chart. Follow the number of beads per row, (You’ve done the first 3 rows) and bend and pull taut at the end of each row. (Don’t worry too much about the shape looking strange at this stage, it will be shaped properly later.)
After the last row, you should have an almost bowl type shape. If not, smooth it all out, and arrange the rows evenly to create the bowl shape.
Twist both wire ends together. You’ve made your first petal.
Repeat this exactly the same 4 more times to create 5 petals.
Twist all 5 petals wires together.
Adding the centre:
Cut off approximately 20 cm of wire, thread the bead towards the centre, bend it in half.
Now just place it on top of the petal group, with one end of the wire between 2 petals on one side of the flower and the other between 2 petals on the opposite side.
Twist the wires on top of the other wires.
If you want a long stem, add a stem wire next to the twisted wires, and wrap around all stems with 32 gauge wire for a couple of centimetres. If you only want a very short stem, the wires all twisted together here should be fine.
The stem now needs to be covered in floral tape.
To use the tape, you need to stretch the first bit of it to activate the stickiness. Carefully wrap it very close to the flower part of the stem, stretch it down at an angle, and twist the stem until you reach the bottom, tear it off, and smooth it out.
Step 3:
Making the LEAF
Just make one leaf by following the leaf pattern as you did with the petal pattern. Twist the wires all the way down. Use floral tape, as you did before, but just for a couple of centimetres.
Use floral tape to attach the leaf to the stem.
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consider making a donation
Created
by Jenny Lawson
For
any questions, email me at: craftcove@gmail.com
More
tutorials can be found at: Jewellery from Craft Cove
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/
Please
do not distribute, lend or copy.
Do
not mass produce.
Copyright
2016 Jenny Lawson
Friday, April 24, 2009
Free Star Tutorial
Here is the first of the tutorials.
NETTED STAR
Materials: 4mm crystals, or other beads
Size 10/0 seed beads
Stopper bead, any color, will be removed later.
Fine fishing line, approximately 80cm
Beading needle, or other fine needle
1. Thread the fishing line onto the needle
2. Tie on a stopper bead. A stopper bead is a bead the same size or smaller than the smallest bead you are using. String through it twice to hold it in place.
3. Add 6 seed beads, 1 crystal and 1 seed bead.
4. Go back through the crystal, and pull tight.
5. String on another 6 seed beads, a crystal, and this time 4 seed beads.
7. Continue in this manner, adding 6 seed beads between each section, crystals next to each end, and ends alternating between a single seed bead, and a 4 seed bead circle.
8. This should form a zigzag pattern with the 4 bead circles on one end, and the single beads on the other, as in the diagram.
9. Stop when you have 6 of each types of ends. 12 points all together.
10. The thread should now be coming out of the crystal, in readiness for the 6 seed bead centre. Now instead of starting a new 6 bead section, just string back through the first section, all the way through the first 6 seed beads, the crystal, and the end seed bead.
11. You should now have a rough circle. String through the next single seed bead, at the next point, then the next. Continue through them all. Then go through them all again.
12. Tie off, and thread through a few beads. Remove stopper bead, tie, and thread through a few beads.
NETTED STAR
Materials: 4mm crystals, or other beads
Size 10/0 seed beads
Stopper bead, any color, will be removed later.
Fine fishing line, approximately 80cm
Beading needle, or other fine needle
1. Thread the fishing line onto the needle
2. Tie on a stopper bead. A stopper bead is a bead the same size or smaller than the smallest bead you are using. String through it twice to hold it in place.
3. Add 6 seed beads, 1 crystal and 1 seed bead.
4. Go back through the crystal, and pull tight.
5. String on another 6 seed beads, a crystal, and this time 4 seed beads.
6. Go back through the first seed bead you strung on, through the same way you came from originally. Then back through the crystal.
7. Continue in this manner, adding 6 seed beads between each section, crystals next to each end, and ends alternating between a single seed bead, and a 4 seed bead circle.
8. This should form a zigzag pattern with the 4 bead circles on one end, and the single beads on the other, as in the diagram.
9. Stop when you have 6 of each types of ends. 12 points all together.
10. The thread should now be coming out of the crystal, in readiness for the 6 seed bead centre. Now instead of starting a new 6 bead section, just string back through the first section, all the way through the first 6 seed beads, the crystal, and the end seed bead.
11. You should now have a rough circle. String through the next single seed bead, at the next point, then the next. Continue through them all. Then go through them all again.
12. Tie off, and thread through a few beads. Remove stopper bead, tie, and thread through a few beads.
Please
consider making a donation
Created
by Jenny Lawson
For
any questions, email me at: craftcove@gmail.com
More
tutorials can be found at: Jewellery from Craft Cove
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/
Please
do not distribute, lend or copy.
Do
not mass produce.
Copyright
2016 Jenny Lawson
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Free Tutorials coming soon
I'll be moving all my free tutorials from my website to my blog soon.
I'll start with the oldest one, and gradually I'll be adding the brand new ones to the blog, rather than my web site.
These will be all my own creations and my own patterns.
Have fun
I'll start with the oldest one, and gradually I'll be adding the brand new ones to the blog, rather than my web site.
These will be all my own creations and my own patterns.
Have fun
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Free Tutorials
All of these patterns I've created myself from my own original designs unless stated otherwise.All these tutorials are free for you to use, but not to copy, sell or distribute. If you feel like making a donation I would be very grateful.
Donations are very easy to do through Paypal, and you don't even have to sign up.
Cyclone Swirl
http://craftcove.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/cyclone-swirl.html
Blocking and stiffening crochet
http://craftcove.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/blocking-and-stiffening-crochet-items.html
Crochet Baby Crocs - Updated and Improved
http://craftcove.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/free-crochet-baby-crocs-pattern.html
How to wear an ear cuff
Herringbone Rope
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2011/05/free-herringbone-rope-tutorial.html
Basic Jewellery Making
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2010/07/basic-jewellery-making.html
Information for beginners can be found here
Different pattern type instructions
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2010/07/instructions-for-following-3d-chart.html
More Tutorials
http://3dbeading.com/
Victorian Beaded Flower
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2009/08/victorian-beaded-flower-tutorial.html
Filled in heart
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2009/05/filled-in-heart-tutorial.html
3 tier beaded flower
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2009/05/3-tier-beaded-flower.html
Netted star
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2009/04/free-star-tutorial.html
See more tutorials here: http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-tutorials.html
Donations are very easy to do through Paypal, and you don't even have to sign up.
Cyclone Swirl
http://craftcove.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/cyclone-swirl.html
http://craftcove.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/blocking-and-stiffening-crochet-items.html
http://craftcove.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/free-crochet-baby-crocs-pattern.html
How to wear an ear cuff
Start at the top of the ear where the ear is thinner. Slide the cuff downwards over the cartilage, while turning it towards the front.
The cuff will sit from the outside of the ear, and over both sections of cartilage on the middle part of your ear.
Squeeze the ring section slightly, if necessary to get a snug fit. This is only necessary before the first use.
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2011/05/free-herringbone-rope-tutorial.html
Basic Jewellery Making
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2010/07/basic-jewellery-making.html
Information for beginners can be found here
Different pattern type instructions
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2010/07/instructions-for-following-3d-chart.html
More Tutorials
http://3dbeading.com/
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2009/08/victorian-beaded-flower-tutorial.html
Filled in heart
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2009/05/filled-in-heart-tutorial.html
3 tier beaded flower
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2009/05/3-tier-beaded-flower.html
Netted star
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2009/04/free-star-tutorial.html
See more tutorials here: http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-tutorials.html
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