Hints, tips and useful information on beadwork and jewelry making.
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Expert tips and tricks for making beaded jewelry.
by Chris Franchetti Michaels
- Spiral-bound
- Published 2009
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Tips,Techniques and Trade Secrets
by Xuella Arnold , Sara Withers
- Hardcover
- Published 2013
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A fisherman's tackle box the perfect place to sort and store beads of different colors and sizes
Ann Better Homes and Garden Craft Group
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Do you like to bead on the go? A beading lap tray is the perfect solution.
Fire Mountain Gems
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When stringing beads onto Accu-Flex® professional-quality beading wire, place a rubber earring-stopper or Bead Stopper™ on one end to keep your beads from falling off while you're designing.
Fire Mountain Gems
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Use a damp q-tip to pick up small beads. They stick to the q-tip and make loading a needle much easier.
i-crafts
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Use a damp q-tip to pick up small beads. They stick to the q-tip and make loading a needle much easier.
Hobby Industry Association
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When you use a "stop bead" to keep the beads from sliding off the end, choose a bead that is a different color or size. That way you won't accidentally incorporate it into the piece on which you are working (and ruin the pattern).
Bead It Babe
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Beading wire can scratch the wearer if not finished properly. A good technique to finish a necklace so that the wire is hidden is to make sure your last bead or two are large enough for the remainder of beading wire to be threaded back through and clipped.
Fire Mountain Gems
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When you are bead stringing, use a clothes pin or an "alligator" style paper clip clamped on the end of the wire to prevent the beads from sliding off. It works better than taping the end, and doesn't leave any sticky residue.
Bead It Babe
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A flexible curved ruler is actually a sewing tool. Since it follows your natural neckline, it can be very handy when designing a necklace for which the exact position of a specific bead on your neckline counts.
Fire Mountain Gems
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Always make sure that the thread size is appropriate to the needle size. Don’t try to thread a 20lb test of gel spun thread through a size 13 beading needle. It won’t happen.
About.com Beadwork
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To bead in comfort, use a specially designed Lap Tray, such as the Lapp Topper Tray with its custom-fitted Vellux brand beading pad to keep the beads from rolling around. Plenty of room for all the supplies you'll need.
About.com Beadwork
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This tip will show you an easy way to get ribbon through a small bead hole. Just take a tapestry needle and thread the ribbon through the eye; then thread it though the hole of the bead.
Needlepointers.com
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