Supplies Needed for Making Beaded Jewelry

Series Summary

From earrings and bracelets to single stranded and elaborate multi stranded necklaces, creating bead jewelry is fun, easy to learn, and can even be done at home. All it takes is the desire to create, the willingness to learn, and finally practicing your newly acquired craft.

In this free online video series learn from expert jewelry designers Sonia Dameron and Deb Sims as they teach and demonstrate how to design jewelry using crystal beads, pearls, glass beads, and gemstones. Learn about gemstones, glass and crystal beads, pearls and design techniques such as creating single and multistranded bead necklaces, how to incorporate leather into your bead work, seed bead patterns, and tools you will need to fashion your bead work.

Video Transcript

"Welcome to the Beadbar in Orlando, Florida. My name is Sonia and today on Expert Village we are going to briefly go over some of the stringing supplies to get you started in the wonderful world of beading. OK, we have a tray here and let me just sort of discuss some of the things that we have here. Some of the basic stringing supplies available are the invisible chord. And this is a great product if you are going to do the illusion necklaces or a very light look in your necklaces. Also, if you prefer just to do a straight stringing on this product, you can do that as well. Over here we have a couple of other cable stringing supplies. One is Soft Touch, The Betalon, and also SoftFlex. This is some of our personal favorites here. We think they work very well and also very easy to use. We also have gossamer floss here. Basically what this is, it is a stretchy chord and I am sure most have you have seen some of the stretchy bracelets. So, this is very easy to do. You don’t need a clasp and it is a really fun look. Also you can use silk chord. When you are doing pearls or possible a nice strand of gemstones you may want to use the silk chord and do the knotting in between each one. When they come on a little card like this, they also include a needle which makes it much easier to get started. And then we have some of the little parts and pieces here to be used in some of the products that we have got on the pad. Some of the finishing parts are B-tip, Crimp Cover and then the Crimp Bead. OK, another handy little device that is great to use while you’re stringing is when you are using any of these products it’s a little gizmo called a bead stopper. As you can see that’s a little spring that comes open and you simply plant that on the end your string and begin stringing and that way your beads don’t fly off the other end. Another product that is available is called Memory Wire which is a lot of fun it looks like a big slinky. What you do is it comes on one big roll like this and depending on how many times you want it to go around your wrist, you will go ahead and cut yourself off a section. And go ahead and begin stringing your beads on there. And then when you get to the finishing of it, you just simply turn both ends down and there you have it. Your bracelet is done. "