Instructions on How to Repair a Broken Ladder Bracelet
Beaded ladder bracelets are often made with beading thread. When the thread wears thin, it can snap and the bracelet will fall apart. Repair your broken ladder bracelet by removing the beads and reweaving them into a ladder pattern with a new piece of thread and two beading needles. The ladder bracelet is then reinforced by passing the thread back through the beads, which prevents the bracelet from breaking in the future.
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Instructions
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Remove all of the beads from the broken ladder bracelet. Pull the broken bead thread out of the beads as you go. Cut the thread when you encounter an area of the ladder bracelet that you cannot undo with your fingers. Set the beads aside; place the beads in piles sorted by color and size.
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Cut a 3-foot piece of beading thread. Insert the right end of the thread through the eye of a number-10 beading needle and pull 1 inch of the tail of the ends of the thread down past the needle. Do the same with the left end of the thread and the other beading needle. If the broken ladder bracelet had a clasp, unclip it to take it apart. Pick up the first half of the clasp and insert the right needle through the ring at the bottom of the clasp. Pull the thread through. Hold the two ends of the thread together and slide the clasp down to the center of the thread.
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String the largest or longest bead from your old ladder bracelet onto the right thread. Slide the bead down to rest against the clasp. Insert the left needle through the same bead and pull it through to cross the thread in the center of the bead hole.
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String one of the smaller side beads from your old bracelet -- if your bracelet has them --
onto the right and left ends of the thread and slide them down to rest next to the largest or longest bead.
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Pick up the next largest/longest bead and insert the right needle through it, from right to left, and pull the thread through. Insert the left needle through the same bead, from left to right, and pull the thread through. You will start to see the ladder pattern form on the bracelet.
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Keep adding one small bead to each end of the thread, then pass both needles through the next longest/largest bead to cross the thread in the center of the bead hole until you have used up all of your beads.
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Insert the right needle through the ring at the bottom of the other half of the clasp and pull the thread through. Insert the left needle through the ring and pull the thread through.
Pass the needles and thread back through the beads in the bracelet to reinforce it. When you reach the other end of the bracelet, remove the needles from the thread. Hold the ends up to each other and tie them together in a simple overhand knot. Trim the excess thread with scissors, then slide the knot into the closest bead to hide it.
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