Beading and bracelets from beads

A woman would not be, probably, a woman, if her practically from the diaper were not attracted by all sorts of jewelry. Beads have a special magic power to perceive a woman's imagination. He attracts both little girls with simple and uncomplicated baubles, and secular lionesses with luxurious beaded jewelry, giving each his personality and charm.

Bracelets from beads, necklaces and necklaces have long been part of the life of a woman, and it all began a long time ago.

Since prehistoric times, samples of beads cut from bone or stone have come down to us. For several millennia BC. In Syria, then in Lebanon began to produce by handicraft beads, which were considered in those days amulet. The Phoenicians established an exchange trade in beads, which spread throughout the Mediterranean.

In Mesopotamia, wearing beads was a sign of wealth and high status in society. In Egypt, they learned how to make beads by fusing glass into quartz pieces, they were expensive enough, and the pharaohs wore them, set in gold, as amulets, then bead bracelets were not invented yet.

The most significant place for the production of beads was later Venice. The beads were used for the production of rosaries. There was a corporation of masters for the manufacture of beads and colored beads. Machine manufacture appeared already in the beginning of the 19th century, beadwork began to develop. Bracelets and pendants, purses, embroidered with colored glass and pads, buckles and brushes - all were in demand among fashionable women and fashionistas of past centuries.

At the end of the 19th century, beaded artists drew attention to modernist artists and the technique of weaving bracelets, as well as other various ornaments, swept the whole world. Beaded women's clothes and interior items, women's handbags and elegant shoes. Beadwork gradually became a series of creative crafts and thousands of needlewomen around the world began to study interesting decoration techniques.

In Russia, this fashion came a little later, but it took root and started up deep roots. This is due to the fact that Russian women have always been engaged in needlework, and a new kind of creativity quickly could draw them, adding Russian ethnic motives to this kind of creativity. When the passion for this kind of creativity was in its heyday, almost everything was adorned to it: albums, caskets, purses, pencils and pens. It was used to make fireplace screens, upholstery for furniture and tableware.

Nowadays the technique of weaving from colored beads has divided into two directions: First - it's small ornaments, such as bracelets from beads, necklaces, chains, ties. And the second, no less common direction is large interior details, such as wall panels. With the help of beads, the beauty of nature is transmitted in the form of flowers, trees, landscapes and other images.

Connoisseurs of beadwork say that beads have some magic and products created, it would seem, a simple combination of colored glass with thread and needle, fascinate the soul for many years.

In America, masters of this type of creativity are called beaded artists. After all, these are really artists, masters of their craft, who create masterpieces from small colored beads and pieces of leather, fabric, stones, metal fittings and so on. Known masters in this art form from many countries, such as Karen Paust, Edda Bloom, Margot Field.

Bracelets from beads, necklaces and necklaces are now created by many Russian masters of this remarkable direction in creativity. Their work is both feminine and elegant, and unbridled fantasy and strict style and ethnic folk basis. Beads are still imported, mainly from Europe. The needlewomen, before starting to create their own creations, carefully approach the choice of material, It is very important that a product that may later become a masterpiece does not lose its pristine appearance for many years or even decades.