Beadwork is one of the most common andpopular kinds of needlework. Labor is painstaking, but at the same time fascinating. To create one thing you can spend a lot of time, so you need patience and perseverance. To help needlewomen there is a special device - a beading machine, which will help quickly and accurately produce any jewelry or accessory.
The device can be purchased in specializedshops where goods for handicrafts are sold, or ordered on the website. Outwardly it resembles a specially designed frame made of wood or plastic. In order to fix the work, a special spring is provided. You can find different in size machines. For example, the working surface can be eleven by sixteen centimeters.
Special coils allow you to adjusttension of threads. If you do not have the opportunity to buy a useful thing, it's more profitable to make a bead machine by yourself. Then when you create it, you can take into account all the necessary nuances.
Special devices are designed for directWeaving in the technique of weaving. Initially, the machine fixes several threads. Their number determines the width of the future product. Threads are located to the working surface at an angle of forty-five degrees strictly opposite to each other. Thus, you are guaranteed to receive a smooth and neat little thing. Now you need to tie a working line with a needle to the base, type beads on it in accordance with the previously selected pattern, pass it under the threads tightened on the machine, distribute beads evenly between them.
Now you need to cut the line through the beads.At the same time, we must ensure that the thread lies above the base. So the first row of the future bracelet or belt will be obtained. Well, if you yourself have designed a bead machine, how to use it, you already know in advance.
Will help to regulate the length of the product specialbolts that will wind up the already woven fabric. When the weaving is completed, the base is removed from the machine. Superfluous threads need to be fixed (tied up with a knot) and trimmed. They can be plaited in a pigtail and make a buckle. The machine provides ample opportunities for creativity. You can change not only the length, but also the width of the product.
Drawing for weaving can be chosen from those thatoffer for cross-stitch embroidery. They can be found in specialized magazines on needlework. If you have already chosen an image, it's enough to break it into squares and proceed from this scheme when weaving the product.
If you are not satisfied with the finished thing, it is enough to consider several ways how to make a bead machine in-house at home. It's pretty simple.
You will need a ruler, cardboard, severalclerical clamps, metal corners. As a basis, the cover from the album, the old book, is useful. Heavy paper, after preliminary applying marking on it to the ruler in DM, bend it in the shape of the corner and fix it on it. Make slits on the cardboard. There are two such pieces to make. The edges of the base are also marked in this way. After that, both blanks are placed on two sides, opposite each other. On them, at equal distances, draw strings. Their ends need to be twisted together and attached to the base with clerical clothespins.
More simple, but also quite convenienta bead-making machine made of a board is produced. It will take a piece of cardboard. It must be folded in half, making equal cuts in the bend at equal distances. Such details will require two. Then prepare a flat board. On it from both sides to fix cardboard blanks. Now you can pull the threads and get to work.
You can get a machine from the shoebox, onopposite sides of which make the same cuts - they fix the working threads. A more professional design is obtained if you create it from wooden or metal parts. At the same time, it is necessary to focus on existing models.
Much depends not only on what you havemachine for beadwork, but also on the quality of beads, so the preference should be given to Czech or Japanese material. Then you are guaranteed to get a neat product. Working on the machine, it is important to make the first row correctly. He is the most difficult. Because beads do not stick and slip. To measure an already finished product, it is sufficient to use a pin with a plastic head as a label. It does not matter what kind of beadwork machine you have: bought in a store or made by yourself. The main thing is that thanks to such a device you can create an excellent thing in just one evening without making extra efforts.
