Weaving beads - it is quite a decent option for home entertainment, exercise brings a lot of pleasure and positive emotions.Creating unique products with their own hands, you will be able to unleash your creativity, relax after stressful situations, and finally, to make yourself a wonderful and unique gift.
However, if you are not new in this business, and try to safely translate all their fantasies in weaving beads, you all will be difficult to find the necessary beads suitable in size, color and texture, the more that time to search for them will have to spendlot.To date, there are many ways to make yourself beads, some of them may come to you.
To learn how to do a good glass beads should visit the course "lampwork" where specially trained craftsmen will teach you everything you need.But this method is suitable not for everyone, since its implementation requires the use of additional materials (burner, special gas, the refractory surface, muffle furnace, etc.), And consequently, would entail significant costs.In addition, it is desirable that all this was in a separate room with good natural ventilation.
original beads can be created using the beads, it is enough to tightly connect several beads is not necessarily the same size, using fishing line.You need to weave a few rows of tightly linking them together.For your beads do not fall apart, it is necessary to pass a few times a fishing line through the top row of beads, then tie knots reliable.
Very popular are the beads from polymer clay or plastic, make their own is very simple.This material is simple enough for molding, the beads can be bought in many specialty stores at low prices.In order to become more flexible plastic mash her hands, and then formed into the desired shape, it may be oval, round or square, depending on your preferences.When the bead is ready, pierce it with a pin or needle, thereby making a hole.The beads should be strung on rods made of metal or wood, and after that you can put them on a baking sheet and bake in the oven.Typically, the calcination is performed from 10 to 30 minutes at a temperature of about 135 ° C, instructions on the package will help you keep the desired temperature.
There is also another method of making beads of various sizes and shapes.It is even simpler than the previous one, and does not cost much or little effort.The main ingredients in this method are, oddly enough, the usual toilet paper and PVA glue.Paper is necessary to break into small pieces and put it in a plastic cup, and then fill with water and leave for a few hours.When the allotted time is up, gently squeeze the resulting mass and add about 100 grams of PVA glue, then mix well, you can still use a mixer that would have turned the surface of the beads as smooth as possible.From the resulting mass can begin to form a variety of beads, whether balls, squares or hearts.The holes in the beads is easy to make a normal toothpick or awl, but not earlier than three hours, when the product is completely dry.Well, and then you can use your imagination.Finished beads can be covered with fabric, paint, interconnect, used to decorate the frames of paintings and much more.The most important thing - the desire to create beauty with their hands, and if you have, then you are on the right track.
