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 beading wire (Tigertail, Soft Flex wire Accu-flex...)
• 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, pass the leaving tail through these 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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