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Decorations for women are one of the ways of self-expression. With the help of beautiful beads, you can create a charming highlight in the image, bring something bright and original in it. Optionally buy expensive beads in the store. They can be made independently of the girlfriend. Special skills will not be needed: a little fantasy and droplets own desire . How to make beads at home - read further.
If a question arose before you, from which you can make beads with your own hands, the choice is quite wide. It can be natural materials, fabric, polymer clay and many other things. Let's get acquainted with the main.
From ribbons with beads
The necklace in which the beads are intertwined in tender satin ribbon. It should be created in stages:
From wood
Wood - beautiful materialwho gave us nature. It makes beads of different diameters and shapes. The classic option is round beads, but there are no less aesthetic and very original beads in the form of cubes and other polygons. Wooden blanks can be bought in most shops for needlework. They can be used both in its original form (it remains only to ride them on the thread), and decorate. This can be done in the following ways:
- lacquer;
- paint and cover lacquer;
- tied with crochet or knitting!
- plug with napkins in the technique of decoupage or cloth;
- polymer clay.
From beads
Beads are small beads that look very elegantly on the neck. The best way - ride beads on a few threads and weave the braid. So the decoration will be more noticeable and will attract the attention of others.
Tip! Beaded can also create more complex weavings. This can be done according to the schemes that are widespread on Internet resources.
From fabric
Make beads from fabric in different ways:
From yarn
This option is suitable for needlewomen who can hold in hand and use the needles or crochet. In your favorite technique, tightly reinstate the harvested balls. The mating should not be too openwork so that the basis does not fall. Do not forget to firmly fasten the threads.
From Papier Masha
Create beads in Paper-Masha technique - do not spend almost no cash. They are made of priest materials, for example, newspapers. Their manufacture will take a little longer, but the result is worth it. You need:
After these manipulations, you will need to decorate beads: sharpen, paint and climb.
From polymer clay
Miracle of modern needlework - polymer clay. This is a plastic material of synthetic origin, with which you can cut out as if from plasticine any figures. Advantage polymer clay - It solidifies at a temperature of a little more than 100 ° C.
There is a great set of methods of beads. The easiest option is to roll ordinary balls of different diameters. After brief training, you can master more complex techniques. For example, with the help of mixing clay of several colors, a gradient can be made. With its help will not be difficult to even simulate expensive natural stones!
Important! Do not forget before baking beads to do holes in them so that in the subsequent ride on them. They can be done with a toothpick or any other thin stick.
From salt and flour
Almost every person from children's times is familiar to "Mukosolka". Yes, then the most salty doughFrom which we did a variety of fakes. Polymer clay - the material is not scene, so we advise you to practice on the Mukosolka. In addition the material is absolutely safe for young children who are all drawn in the mouth.
The dough recipe is simple enough:
- 1 cup flour;
- 1 glass of salt;
- water.
Mix all the ingredients, slowly pouring water. The dough should be plastic and should not stick to hand. For softness, you can add some oil or starch. The mixture can also be tinted with the help of paints or food dye. As an option - to paint ready-made beads.
After you blinded the beads you need, you can go one of two ways:
- leave them until complete drying. This method may take several days;
- burn in the oven. Do not exhibit high temperaturesso that the beads do not change color.
After the manufacture of beads, you can paint and coat acrylic varnish.
Paper
From thin paper strips, it is not difficult to twist cute beads. Make it is necessary in the technique of "Cving". Cut the sheets of colored paper on thin stripes and twist into small tubes with an adhesive. The tips are tied to not fall apart.
From food materials
For classes with children, a good pastime will be the creation of beads from food materials. This is great small motor kids. Can be used:
- pasta (with holes);
- beans, peas, nuts, dry fruits. They will have to tinker and drill holes to ride on a thread.
Many love to do various decorations with their own hands, for example, beads. For their manufacture, you can not always find ready-made beads of the desired size, so today I will tell you how to make beads yourself. Material For them, you can choose absolutely any, be it glass, beads, paper, wood or plastic.
Glass beads
On the Internet there are a lot of all kinds of forums, where it is discussed how to make beads with their own glasses, but it is best to go to the courses "Lampvork". It was Lampwork Masters that make glass beads. If you want to do this yourself, then you will need the following materials:
- Burner
- Gas for burner
- Wire (mandrel)
- Graphite blades
- Glass rods
- Fireproof surface
- Tweezers
- Muffle furnace
- Protective glasses
I will add that the burner should be sure to be in a well-ventilated room. The presence of drawing indoors is also desirable. All this can be located in the garage or if you live in your own house, in a free room. So, proceed:
- Immerse the mandrel into the composition based on clay, and let it dry.
- Heat the glass rod and mandrel. When the glass and the mandrel are bravely warm, the glass must begin to twist on the mandrel, rotating it.
- Give the bead the desired form with the help of tweezers and graphite blades.
- Then the bead decorate. You can create original color points, curls, etc. on its surface. Often used metal decor using silver, copper, gold.
- Next, burn beads. When the glass lodge in the furnace is heated to 940-1050 degrees Fahrenheit. Then the product is slowly cooled to a temperature at which the glass does not respond to internal changes. Subsequently, the temperature gradually decreases to room floor.
- Now the cooled bead is decorated. We use faceted and polishing. If you want to make the surface of the beads matte, then the product is etched by acid.
How to make bead beads
Consider on the example of weaving beads of 5 biserin at the base, 12 faces and 5 beads. We will need, a total of 30 beerts.
In order to make the first row, it will be necessary for one end of the fishing line to collect five beads. It is necessary to watch the "non-working" end was about 15 cm, it is still useful for us. Workers and non-working ends of the fishing line will need to be associated with each other.
The next two rows will need to be placed as follows: the desired amount of beerts we collect on the fishing line, then closing them into the ring. Then each row of beads must be attached to those located below. At the same time, you must not forget to pull up our fishing line to ensure the necessary tension.
In order for the bead not to break, it is necessary to fix it. The fishing line must be walking along the beads that are located on the top face of the beads and tie a nodule.
Now the tips of the fishing line must be started by the resulting weaving, and which will remain, it will be necessary to cut.
Here are beads and ready. If you look at their faces, you can even say that weaving beads from beads something resembles cells. Beads from such beads to get very original.
Paper beads
We will need: paper, scissors, handle, glue, needle, fishing line and varnish (should be colorless). Varnish will be needed so that our beads are glittered, and the fishing line is needed to make products from beads: necklace, necklace, beads, bracelets. For the manufacture of beads, glossy pages of any magazine are perfect. If you want to make a thick bead, then use the paper is thickening, and, accordingly, if thin, then the paper will be thinner.
Create an A4 sheet markup scheme - mark 1 cm on one side and 2 cm, on the other. It is necessary to post short log pages. The remaining marks will be at a distance of 2 cm arcs from each other. It is necessary in order to quickly create the necessary pieces of paper for further twisting them.
From how you post a page, the dimensions of our beads will depend on. That is, 3 cm means that the bead length will be 3 cm, and the thickness is determined by the thickness and long paper. If you need to make oval beads, then the length of the beads should be slightly less than 1.5-1 cm, and it is necessary to use thick paper.
With the help of the needle, start to screw the paper. It is necessary to start with a thick edge and a turn behind the turn, very tightly, put it on the toothpick. When it remains a piece of 3-5 cm, you need to smear it with glue and continue to turn further.
Lacation Beads. It is necessary to collect all the beads on the line, apply a layer of varnish on each bead. Apply the varnish very carefully, do not allow outers. You can put a varnish in two layers.
You can collect beads in 2-4 days after the second layer of varnish has been applied. It is then that beads dry completely, and you can use them for handmade products.
Now, having familiarized with several ways, how to make beads with your own hands, you can apply the knowledge gained in practice. After all, the jewelry made with your own hands is winning with any outfit!
In this article we will talk about beads to create jewelry with their own hands, their main types and methods of application.
Bead is a bulk decorative element having a different shape with a through hole for fastening on a thread. They differ in shape, size (from a few millimeters to several centimeters) and by manufacturing material. Beads of various shapes found the wider application in needlework: from the traditional (making decorations) before the design of floristic compositions, embroidery, etc.
Beads are Chinese, Czech, Japanese and American production. As a rule, they differ in manufacturing material, coating resistance and price. The cheapest are Chinese beads, most often they are on sale. Czech beads are more expensive, but also the quality of them is much better. They are also well presented in stores. Japanese and American production beads can be found only in specialized needlework stores.
Material of manufacture
The most inexpensive is plastic (acrylic) beads.
Their biggest plus is an inexpensive price and a small weight. The largest minus is a unstable coating, especially for Chinese opaque beads (for example, imitating pearls or galvanic coating). As a rule, such beads are not used by masters to create. jewelrySince they strongly "reduce the cost of" the type of product. However, they can with success can be applied to the manufacture of children's, theater or other stage decorations or suits.
The low weight of beads and a small price in this case is a significant plus, since for embroidery costumes, a huge amount of beads are often required, and the costume will be not very difficult, as well as inexpensive for the price. Frequently used in needlework as an additional decorative element.
Acrylic beads imitate more expensive glass beads, externally, they are very similar. Glass beads are usually used to create jewelry. They look much more "more expensive" of their acrylic copies. They are appreciated for the ability to refract and skip light, thanks to which the decorations are obtained sparkling.
But it costs to remember that glass is a heavy material, so decorations of them weigh a lot. In addition, they are rather fragile, and it is necessary to handle it very carefully.
Types of coatings Beads for jewelry
Modern manufacturers offer acrylic and glass beads with various species Coatings. Transparent beads, without any additional coating, can be made of colored acrylic or glass. Glass beads - especially having faces - very beautifully refract the light.
Transparent brilliant coating beads have a thin film, reflective light.
Beads S. gasoline or rainbow coating have a characteristic color transfusion on the surface. Very often such beads are labeled "AB" (from Lat. Aurora Borealis - "Northern Light"). The beads with gasoline coating are shimmer in the sun with all the colors of the rainbow.
Unusually look transparent matte beads. They do not refraart the light, so do not sparkle, but outwardly similar to natural stones and look very noble.
Opaque beads also produced several species. There are quite simple, without any additional coating. You can find beads of various colors and shapes on sale.
Opaque beads can also have a brilliant or rainbow (gasoline) coating.
Rainbow coverage looks very beautiful on beads dark shades, Reminds the northern lights at the night sky or the starry sky.
Separately, I want to mention electroplating (metallized) coating
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Beads can be covered in whole or in part. It can be glossy. This coating is extremely bright and greatly shine. Such beads are beautifully looking in New Year's compositions or decorations.
This type of coating can be matte. It is more suitable for jewelry, as it is externally indistinguishable from the metal.
there is beads imitating. Moreover, you can find very high-quality beads, which are visually difficult to distinguish from natural.
Separately, I want to mention the article beads, imitating pearls.
Probably, this is the most popular kind of beads. They are used to create jewelry, trees, topiaries, bouquets, embroidery, etc. Such beads are the most different shapes, sizes and colors.
And of course, speaking of glass beads, it is impossible not to mention the famous beads of the Austrian Firm Swarovski (Swarovski). They are distinguished by a resistant coating, an ideal form, as well as unusual colors and textures.
Due to the fact that these beads have an ideal form, of which it is very easy to weave the decorations - they are obtained incredibly beautiful and even. Jewelry with Swarovski beads looks very "expensive", so these beads use the highest level masters.
But the price of such beads is 3-4 times higher than that of similar glass beads of other manufacturers. In addition, many beads in the area of \u200b\u200bthe hole can be seen "influx". Sometimes they have to be removed manually with a nail file. From my own experience I can say that they are not inferior to the willing beads. They have good coating resistance, smooth shapes, excellent transparency, they have rich flower palette. Therefore, such beads are perfectly suitable for creating beautiful jewelry.
And if you do not take specific shades of Boujin Swarovski, then Czech beads are comparable to them in quality and appearance. Glass beads can be found in stores, and beads with different effects: "broken glass", air bubbles inside, multicolored, rough, etc.
The next material from which beads make are metal. Despite the material of the manufacture, even large metal beads Very easy. But openwork beads are quite easy to damage, it is necessary to stop or completely break, so it is necessary to work with them quite neatly. But, unfortunately, without a special protective coating (for example, Tsaponlak), metal beads quickly darken from skin contact.
Such beads are more like an additional decorative element in jewelry, and are rarely used independently.
No less popular and beads from natural stone.
They meet a wide variety of forms, sizes, colors - everything is limited to the natural characteristics of the stone.
But you can split all the stone beads to 2 large categories. The first is processed stones most often, they have a clear geometric shape and a smooth polished surface.
From stone beads most often make decorations and trees weave. For embroidery, they are too heavy. Stones appreciate their naturalness. The decorations with them look exquisitely, so they are very often formed.
It costs that modern technologies make it possible to make practically exact copies of stones from synthetic materials, and a non-specialist is very difficult to distinguish the fake from the original. Therefore, natural stones are better to buy from proven sellers.
In addition to stones, beads are made from other natural components. This is primarily a tree. Wood beads different with ease and durability. They can be applied various patterns and colors.
Such beads are most often used to create ethnic decorations. In addition, they are often powered by beads.
Also in natural natural materials include beads from, shells, pearl or coral.
Basically, they make decorations. The cost of such beads is large (especially from high-quality pearls), but also products with them look gorgeous.
The above it was about the beads of factory production. But there are also unique beads, some - in a single copy. it handmade beads. Of course, such beads are created for decorations. Most often they act as the main decorative element. They are made from the most different materials And in the most of various techniques. Combining them, you can create incredibly beautiful and bizarre beads. The plus undoubtedly is the ability to create exactly such a bead that is necessary in this decoration. But the price of such beads will be significant.
Several main techniques for the manufacture of such beads can be distinguished. it glass beads in Lampwork technique, lamp (English Lamp - lamp, burner + work - work). They are all sorts of colors, forms, sizes. But such beads will be severe and fragile, besides, there will be no two completely identical beads, as this is handmade.
Polymer clay beads. It is easier to work with this material than with glass, since beads are not so heavy and fragile. But these beads are not transparent. Color, shape, size - all this depends on the fantasy and masters skills.
Wool beads - Very easy, pleasant to the body, immediately feels warm from them.
But they have one significant disadvantage - they are very afraid of moisture and after wetting badly dry. In addition, due to the porosity of the material, they absorb sweat and retain the smell.
Lesson, master class on the manufacture of simple beads from polymer clay residues (plastics). I propose an option to use residues after creating other jewelry with your own hands. Step by step guide.
Each master is sooner or later, working with plastic, faces the need to dispose of various small pieces, residues and cropping - the so-called "waste".
Many use the waste (trashn) plastic for the bead filling.
I want to offer you as an option, make plastic residue such beads
This method is not new, it is often used, and you can find similar lessons on the network, but I still believe that every person brings something to his own, some little things, the details in what makes. Therefore, I hope that the lesson made by me will seem interesting to you and useful.
So, we collect crop plastics suitable in color. You don't need to mix them with each other, you need to be carefully, folding them all together to ride between the palms, stretching into the "sausage".
Further, we continue carefully and slowly roll the sausage in the palms, firstly, in order for separate pieces of plastics, it became one whole, secondly, in such a way, we warm the heat of the plastic, making it softer and plastic.
In the photo it is clear that the irregularities of the color was smooth, "Libracy" became noticeable
We fold our sausage in half or three times, - as you are more convenient, and continue to roll between the palms.
Again we fold, and again rolling - until the desired thickness of the stripes on the surface of the sausages do not achieve the desired thickness. The smaller roll over the sausage, the larger the strips will be, and accordingly, the longer rolling, the smallest there will be a strip.
After that, we have a rather than our sausage on a solid surface.
These were the sausages
Cut the sausages to pieces. The size of pieces depends on what size beads you want to get at the output. Here you have to experiment a little.
To get beads, approximately the same in size, - cutting off one piece of sausages, we apply it as a sample to the main sausage, and cut off the rest of the sizes in the size of the first.
The resulting pieces have a very uncompatible pattern on end sections.
Therefore, you need to remove them. To do this, we take the edges of a piece like a dumplings.
The resulting "grab" gently appreciate, approach, but not smoothed, otherwise the stripes can be smeared
The same is done with the second cut. Then the resulting piece is slightly flattered from both ends, giving the shape approximate to the ball.
What happened, riding between the palms, giving the final form by the bead. Do not forget to roll in different sides, that is, 4-5 times clockwise rolling, 4-5 times counterclockwise. It also needs to not be smeared, not twisted in one direction picture.
It turned out Bead
Making a hole. I specifically did so that the bead began to be shoved on top and bottom, that is, it turned out with me as a result of a bead in the shape of a fallen ball
To do this, put the bead on the solid surface, we plan the bead center, and slowly pierce the bead to the toothpick, while rotating the bead itself on the surface. At the same time, the bottom of the beads are crushed.
We turn the bead, and insert the toothpick into the outlined hole on the reverse side.
And again slowly pierce the bead, while rotating it along the solid surface.
That's what happened.
Stick to the toothpick with a bead in poropolone spongeAnd we ship to be baked.
Here, such beads I still saked.
