Beaded earrings by hand - diagrams, easy master-classes for beginners, photo ideas

Beads are the magic material, with which you can make jewelry of any length and shape.

In this article we will talk about making earrings from beads, a few simple, but beautiful options for beginners. If you plan to do beading, start with earrings, it will not take you much time, but the result will surpass all your expectations.

Also, we will tell you a little about beads and related materials with which you will work.

History of Beading

Beads as an element for making various jewelry has appeared several thousand years ago (3 thousand years) in Ancient Egypt, it is connected with invention of glass.

People have learned to make beads from it - glass cylindrical beads with a through hole. Archeologists find at excavations of the Egyptian pyramids a lot of ornaments from beads, even then people appreciated the beauty and variety of this material. Then beads appeared in Syria and Ancient Rome, which began to actively produce them for sale.

Beadwork production on a large scale began with the appearance of specialized equipment in Bohemia in the first half of the 19th century. From that moment beadwork art conquers our planet and penetrates into the Russian Empire.

Beading is a popular and demanded type of needlework to this day, jewelry made of this material meets the modern fashion trends, it is handmade individual work. You can make jewelry that has no analogues with your own hands. Isn't it amazing.

The necessary materials for the production of earrings

To learn how to weave from beads you can start with simple jewelry, such as earrings.

For this you will need:

• Beads, it is better to have several colors that are in harmony with each other. To make the decoration looked beautiful and presentable, you must use high-quality beads, nowadays they are produced in countries such as Japan and the Czech Republic, medium-quality beads are produced in China at a cost it is also cheaper and is quite suitable for the first simple works. By the way, beads are not only glass beads slightly oblong, in today's world there are many varieties of beads, both in material (glass, plastic and even metal) and in shape oblong beads, round beads, glass beads. It is better to buy beads with a reserve in the future, you also need it. But if you do not have enough of them for the earrings you have planned, there is always a chance that this shade may be unavailable in the store. Besides to add beads to a half-finished product it is always an additional action which can be initially avoided in preparation for work.
• String, by the way, besides it as a material for beads fastening, you can use special fishing line - rubber bands made of silicone, they have the peculiarity to stretch, the probability that such a decoration can be broken is minimal. These threads are good for jewelry making. If the ornament has a complex shape, a thin metal wire will do for this purpose.
• Ear hooks. Accessories also come in a variety: nails with a chain, hooks and many other options. It is necessary as the final stage of creating a coherent piece of jewelry.
• Scissors, pliers to cut threads and fishing line.

Before making the product, prepare at once all the necessary elements, beads, fishing line, thread should be with a reserve.

Flower Earrings

Beading as a technique for making jewelry is not complicated enough, as in any form of needlework practice is required, to begin with the development of simple jewelry, then you can already move on to more complex forms.

Also you can make jewelry out of beads on your own sketches. So, to make earrings in the form of a flower, you need to do the following steps.

String 8 beads on the wire and form them into a ring. Next, on the ends of the wire to thread 9 pieces of beads and form them into a petal, displaying the ends of the thread through the ring, which you have previously obtained: 1 bead in the ring one petal.

All that's left is to secure the earhook and the earrings are ready. They are light and fun, suitable for both youthful looks and a child. Simple workmanship will teach you how to handle beads, combine colors beautifully and weave simple shapes.

Beaded earrings as an addition to a beautiful look

The image of a girl, a woman, is made up of little things. And what if not jewelry is the very little things that complete our image. And handmade earrings can help make it original, memorable and unique. Beadwork to help you.

Jewelry made of this material belongs to the category of bijouterie, and as everyone knows there is a lot of bijouterie. As a rule, adornments made of beads cannot be combined with jewels or other kinds of jewelry; it is rather difficult to make such a combination harmonious.

But with beads you can create whole sets of earrings, pendants, necklaces, rings which will radiate their beauty and complement your beautiful image.

Practicality of beaded products

Earrings as a paired type of jewelry has one disadvantage: if one is lost, you have to throw the second one away. But this does not apply to beaded earrings jewelry.

If you were able to knit a set of earrings, you will have no problem making a second one if you lose one. You get an exclusive, beautiful jewelry at a budget price.

Beaded earrings can complement a particular image using your individual sketches. The material for beading is very accessible for purchase and you can always update your image with new and interesting beaded earrings at the same time without considerable financial expenses.

Weaving techniques and their variety

After mastering a few basic techniques, you can create a countless number of beaded jewelry, including earrings in different styles^.

• Ladder stitch. This technique is used both individually and to create a base of products on which then you can add various configurations of beads. Two beads are strung on a fishing line or thread, then the line is passed through the first bead and tightened while aligning the beads, then the next beads are strung, and so on.
• Also, the most popular beading techniques are: herringbone, mosaic, stitch, French, and rectangular.

There are also several options for binding or tying beads. You can weave the beadwork using fishing line, thread, silicone fishing line, thread - rubber bands. Also in more complex models of jewelry and earrings in particular, wire and glue are used. Beads are glued to the pre-bonded from the same cloth.

Making openwork earrings

So, let's go back to making earrings and try to make another variant of not complicated jewelry - openwork earrings. They are made in boho style and correspond to this trend in the naturalness of their materials, lightness and casualness and airiness of the jewelry.

To make them you will need thread, special blanks in the form of a circle, of course beads, crochet hook, pendants, as the final stage of making jewelry.

We thread the beads, securing them to the round base. Then we insert a hook into each of the holes, we do a no-strings-attached stitch. Let's make 7 stitches, fix them in the next hole, we will put and stitch a bead and so on till the end of the row, with each next row during the formation of stitches we will have to decrease the number of arches so the lower part of the earring will have a triangular shape.

All that is left is to fix the thread to prevent the decoration from falling apart, and attach the base in the form of a hook. Earrings ready.

Beading as a form of needlework

If you like to make jewelry with your own hands beading is a great option for a hobby and the realization of a creative process.

Beaded earrings are beautiful, individual and unique. You can please yourself and your relatives and friends without great financial expenses and who knows, maybe this kind of hobby can grow into your own business.

Beading opens up unlimited possibilities for you to realize your creative ideas. In our modern world the more and more actual handmade jewelry is, the more demanded it is by women and girls, especially beaded earrings out of fashion and time are supplementing any woman's image.

We hope that this article was useful for you in your beginnings and your first steps in mastering these beautiful techniques of beading, in particular making earrings.

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