Weaving with beads for beginners. How to prepare for work

Weaving from beads or bugles can be learned without a long training. Weaving with beads for beginners does not require complicated or expensive adaptations. And yet, before you start making products, you need to work out simple techniques of nizania.

What materials and tools require beading for beginners

For successful work you will need:

• Beads, small beads, bugles. Beads can be any size and color. For work old or scattered beads will be useful - from them it is possible to make new original ornaments. How to store bead material? It can be glass bubbles, boxes or bottles with lids, which will be located every single type of beads. During operation, it can be poured onto a fleecy fabric or kept in small rosettes. This will help you easily type the material on the needle. In the arsenal of the skilled worker there must be beads or beads, which have a larger opening than the usual beads. These beads are called "bundles" and large holes in them are needed so that you can easily pass a needle and thread through the bead several times.

To make beadwork for beginners successful, try to choose beads of the same size by the color of the pattern and make sure that the beads lie tightly to each other, without sagging.

• Needles need thin with a long ear. You can lick and without a needle. In this case, use a thread, the end of which is dipped in nail polish or glue. The nit-picker can also be successfully used for stringing beads without needles.
• The line. Weaving with beads on the line implies that it must be fine.
• Threads are used conventional - cotton reel, kapron, silk. To work without using a needle, take a single thick thread (No. 10, 20), and a thin cotton thread (No. 40, 50) or kapron filament is doubled. Thread, which will be beads, and nizat product, called "working thread."
• Wax. To give a thread of elasticity and its wax - wipe with wax.
• Albums with patterns, markers, colored pencils. It will be necessary to create patterns and sketches of future products in the technique of weaving with beads, for beginners this is a very useful help.
• Scissors.
• Weaving machine. It is easy to manufacture, using the machine to perform original weaving with beads, bracelets for beginners in the technique of weaving. The machine is a board with thickness from 1 cm, 6-10 cm in width, and length depending on the planned product: 60 cm for short weaves and 150 cm for long ones. At the ends of the boards are attached wooden slats - they are called "sashes". Their width is 2 cm and the height is from 2 to 5 cm. On the slats-pegs small cloves are stuck in a staggered order (their distance from each other is about 3 mm). These carnations are needed to fix the warp threads. Sometimes instead of carnations, slits are made on the sashes.

How to weave with a weaving machine

With such a technique (textile), the warp threads should be more than one, than the number of beads in the pattern along the width of the article. Tighten the thread should not be too tight, so that the finished product does not crumple and not wrinkled.

The threads are stretched from one side to the other, creating a so-called base on the principle that is used in weaving. In this case, the role of the shuttle will be played by a needle, and the role of a duck is the working thread on which beads are strung.

Previously, on the plank of the machine you need to apply a central line, dividing the board in half, which will show the middle of the product. Also, use a pencil on the board from each edge to apply along the line denoting the beginning and end of the work, that is, the length of the finished product. For short products - at a distance of 15 cm from each paddle, and for long ones - at a distance of 25 cm.

Beadwork for beginners is always performed as follows - the work is in the left hand, while the fingers of the right hand are working thread. There is nothing complicated.