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Learn how to make glass beads using glass, mandrels, frit, Cubic Zirconia, and a torch in this free video series on beading.
There are 11 videos in this series:
Making round glass beads is done by using mandrel tubing. Watch how to make a round glass bead in this free video on beading.
When mandrel tubing is heated you can heat up your rod of glass to make a bead. Watch how to heat glass to make a glass bead in this free video on beading.
Glass must be heated up to a honey-like consistency to be added to a glass bead. Watch how to add glass to a glass bead in this free video on beading.
Glass frit is ground glass that is used to add glass to a glass bead. Watch how to add frit to glass beads in this free video on beading.
Encasing frit should be done with a thin layer of transparent glass. Watch how to encase a glass bead in this free video on beading.
Dental tools can be used to shape glass beads. Watch how to reshape a glass bead in this free video on beading.
Rotating a glass bead on a mandrel rounds out the bead. Watch how to finish rounding a glass bead in this free video on beading.
A stringer is used to melt various colors of glass onto a glass bead. Watch how to create flowers on a glass bead in this free video on beading.
Glass dots can be melted onto glass beads. See how to melt colored glass dots onto a glass bead in this free video on beading.
Designs such as flowers can be added to glass beads using a mandrel and a thin stringer. See how to create small flowers on a glass bead in this free video on beading.
Loose Cubic Zirconia can be melted onto glass beads to add even more beauty to your beads. See how to melt Cubic Zirconia to a glass bead in this free video on beading.
Glass bead jewelry starts with creating just one glass bead. Artists create glass beads by using a torch to heat glass on a mandrel and shape the glass with tools and gravity. From earrings and bracelets to single stranded and elaborate multi-stranded necklaces, creating glass bead jewelry is fun, easy to learn, and builds artistic skill. All it takes is the desire to create, the willingness to learn, and finally practicing your newly acquired craft. See how to make glass beads in this free video series featuring artist Teresa Metcalfe-Johnson. Teresa will demonstrate how to heat glass to make beads, how to add glass to a glass bead, how to add frit to glass beads, how to encase a glass bead, how to shape a glass bead, how to round a glass bead, how to create flowers on a glass bead, how to melt glass dots on a glass bead, and how to melt Cubic Zirconia to a glass bead.
Teresa Metcalfe-Johnson Teresa Metcalfe-Johnson has loved making jewelry ever since she strung macaroni noodles together in the first grade. When she learned that she could actually make her own beads she knew her medium had been found. A friend of the family who was using stained glass scraps originally introduced her to lamp working. Since then Teresa has taken classes with Beth Olson, Becky Mason, Tink Martin and Kia Affleck. She has experimented over the past five years to develop her own style, which focuses on organic colors and shapes. She enjoys exploring the interaction of different glass colors as well as using metals such as silver, gold and copper in her work. Teresa sells her beads individually as well as incorporating them into finished pieces. You may contact Teresa at teresa@refinedwithfire.comdkdk
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