Jewelry Making For Beginners: Beading Techniques & Stitches
What you'll learn
- Get to know different types of materials and tools( such as beads, findings, jewelry wire, pliers, stringing materials, beading needles, etc)
- Learn to make earrings, necklaces and bracelets with beads, wire, frames, chains and jewelry findings.
- Learn to make beaded bracelet with beading wire and gemstone beads.
- Learn to make elastic bracelet in two ways.
- Learn to make floating bead necklaces with different stringing materials.
- Learn to create crystal and pearl bracelets with Right Angle Weave stitch and its variations.
- Learn how to do ladder stitch and make a classic beaded band ring.
- New projects and lectures will be added to keep this course updated.
Requirements
- Students need to prepare some basic tools and materials to practice: beads, round nose pliers, chain nose pliers, flush cutters, beading wire, clear nylon cord, FireLine( or other bead weaving thread) and beading needles. I have detailed introduction of these tools and materials in this course.
Description
There are 3 types of beaded jewelry you will learn in this course. In the bead and wire section, you will learn how to work with jewelry wires, metal frames, chains and findings, including making bead links, wire wrapping and connecting different jewelry components.
During the bead stringing section, you will learn how to string beads with different stringing materials, different ways to do crimping, make elastic bracelets and floating bead necklaces.
In the bead weaving sections, you will be guided through the process of how to make beaded jewelry with basic bead weaving stitches and their variations.
New projects and lectures will be added to keep this course updated.
Who this course is for:
- Absolute beginners who want to learn basic techniques to make and design different types of beads jewelries.
Course content
- Preview07:41
- 03:24Different Types of Jewelry Wire
- 04:49Jewelry Pliers
- 02:13Findings and Chain for Jewelry Making
Instructor
![Greta Lan](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 101 Reviews
- 513 Students
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Greta Lan is a freelance jewelry designer based in New Zealand. She was a makeup artist before and studied in school to make different types of hand crafted jewelry and accessories for her makeup designs, including French flower making, beading, resin and feather crafting. she has been focused on designing beaded jewelry since 2016, sharing her tutorials on different platforms and has a YouTube channel (Greta's Creations) with thousands of subscribers. With her online course you will learn the fundamental techniques to make different types of beaded jewelry