Basic Jewelry Making Instructions
Jewelry making instructions will explain through detailed pictures how to finish a necklace, bracelet, earring with the right findings. You will see how to make knots between beads or dangles for charming handcrafted jewelry.
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How-To
Stringing and finishing with Stainless Steel Coated Wire
- Cut a piece of Tigertail or Soft Flex wire.
- String a jump ring or a clasp and a crimp bead.
- Pass back through the crimp bead, leave a tail.
- With a flat nose plier, push gently the crimp bead close to the clasp.
- Flatten with your flat nose plier.
- String a few beads and trim with a flush cutter.
How-To
Finishing with Nylon thread or Silk thread
- Cut a piece of Nylon thread or Silk thread.
- Pick up a twisted beading needle and needle on a bead tip, leaving a small tail.
- Make a double knot, glue and close the bead tip and now :
Knotting with a Awl
- I like to make the first knot close to the bead tip.
- String a bead;
- Make a large loop with the thread, place the awl inside the loop, hold the thread really tight against the bead (see pictures).
- Take off the awl;
- Continue.
How-To
Finishing with a cord
- Cut a piece of cord or serpentine with a flush cutter.
- Place the cord inside the Cord tip, flatten one side of the cord tip, then the other one with a flat nose plier.
How-To
Make a "bead dangle"
- Among all jewelry making instructions, making a bead dangle can be useful when you don't know how to make an eye loop or you don't have the right eye or head pin, for example.
- This bead dangle has been done with a craft chain; Cut a small piece of Nylon Coated Wire , double it, string a bead, a crimp bead.
- Flatten the crimp bead with a flat nose plier;
- Trim the wire.
How-To
Open and close a jump ring
- Take a look at the picture; Take one plier on each hand.
- Place the jump ring between each plier.
- Open and close gently.
The jump ring is a link between a clasp and a specific finding like a bead tip, a cord tip, a clasp, a loop made with a nylon coated wire...So this jump ring needs to be perfectly close otherwise your jewelry will break !
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