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Lifestyle Arts & Crafts Jewelry Making

Professional Pearl and Bead Stringing

Everything you need to know to create professionally made jewelry using pearl and bead stringing techniques.
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (172 ratings)
1,161 students
Created by Fleury Sommers
Last updated 1/2014
English
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What you'll learn

  • To acquire the skills necessary to string pearls and beads professionally.
  • In this course, you will learn the basic techniques used to string pearls and bead professionally, including complex finishing techniques.
  • You'll be provided with an extensive review of materials used in this jewelry making niche, including threads and appropriate selections.
  • You'll learn basic gemology about commonly used materials and tips on interacting with clients.

Requirements

  • A complete list of materials and suppliers is included. They include inexpensive tools and materials.

Description

Professional Pearl and Bead Stringing is for goldsmiths, jewelry designers and serious amateurs who want or need to learn how to string pearls and gemstones professionally. The course begins with the easiest techniques and builds on them to demonstrate the more difficult skills, trying knots between beads and attaching a clasp to a strand.

Students are introduced to critical jewelry manufacturing concepts in this niche including design versus manufacturing trade-offs, available materials, commercial findings and more.

A lecture on pearls is included since students will undoubtedly be working with this gemstone and will need to answer commonly asked questions from clients.

Upon completion, the student will have completed three necklaces using different techniques.

Whether the student decides to monetize his or her new skills or to use them to make jewelry for personal use, this is a life-changing course, the beginning of a hugely rewarding and creative journey that will last a lifetime.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in learning how to string pearls and beads professionally. My students have included professional gold and silver smiths, designers and serious amateurs.

Course content

4 sections • 23 lectures • 2h 1m total length

  • Preview03:11
  • Preview02:44
  • Preview04:01
  • Preview05:05
  • All About Threads
    08:13
  • Project One - Tools and Materials
    06:23
  • Project One - Manufacturing Your First Necklace
    09:56
  • Project One - Using the Crimp Tool
    04:30

  • Project Two - Tools and Materials
    02:46
  • Project Two -- Attaching the First Bead Tip
    08:42
  • Making Knots
    06:55
  • More About Knotting
    02:18
  • Finishing the Necklace
    04:59
  • Common Mistakes
    03:50

  • Project Three - Tools and Materials
    08:35
  • Project Three - Measuring Thread
    05:05
  • The Temporary Knot
    02:48
  • Project Three - Attaching the Clasp - I
    10:14
  • Project Three - Attaching the Clasp - II
    09:00
  • A Note On Quality
    02:41
  • Project Three - Correcting Bad Knots
    04:38
  • Freshwater Pearls
    03:35

  • Conclusion and Thank You
    01:04

Instructor

Fleury Sommers
Goldsmith, Gallery Owner, Gemologist, Professional Pearl and Bead Stringer
Fleury Sommers
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 172 Reviews
  • 1,162 Students
  • 1 Course

I’ve always loved jewelry and the history of jewelry, but my real journey began some twenty five years ago when the clasp pulled off a crystal necklace.

I took it to a bench jeweler I’d used for other repairs but when it was returned to me, I saw something I hadn’t even realized I’d known.Without knots between those crystals, they would rub against one another and the beads would be scratched. The “repair” was unacceptable.

The jeweler was huffy about redoing the necklace and I had the then really startling thought that I could do this, that I could learn to string pearls and beads.

My first step was a local bead shop which offered a class in stringing pearls and beads. The class began and ended with using crimps, important knowledge, of course, but limited.

I then found my way to the Gemological Institute of America which back then offered a course in pearl and bead stringing. I took the course and was hooked. I went on to take most of the courses required for a degree as a graduate gemologist. I also earned the pearl certification from GIA. (My undergraduate degree is from Columbia and my master’s is from Northwestern.) Simultaneously, I began to learn metalsmithing.

I took local courses in gem setting, molding, casting, and soldering. I also studied at the Richmond Institute and took a number of courses at the Revere Institute in San Francisco, studying with, among others, Harold O’Connor, who I consider to be one of the finest studio jewelers working today.

All of this opened my eyes to the wonderful work being done today by metalsmiths and pearl and bead stringers and I opened a small gallery in Houston to show studio jewelry. The gallery grew and I moved it to “Gallery Row” in Houston where I showed work by Harold O’Connor, Cynthia Eid, Sydney Lynch and others. I also showed work by Judith Ubick who is one of the most talented and creative bead stringers working today.

While operating the gallery, I discovered there was a demand for a pearl and bead stringing course, a real one, not one that stopped short with crimps or one that failed to teach the more complex finishing techniques. The demand came from metalsmiths, designers and serious amateurs. The Professional Pearl and Bead Stringing course is built directly upon this course which I taught dozens of times and for which I charged $300.

Pearl and bead stringing isn’t just technique, of course. It means knowing your materials, understanding design and, when necessary, borrowing from other crafts to enhance your own work. (In this respect, macrame, kumihimo, and various fisherman’s and oriental knots come to mind.)

However, developing the basic professional skills in the niche is the critical first step. Once that is taken, other skills and knowledge can be acquired productively as a design vision is developed.

For me, manufacturing jewelry and knowing as much as I can about it is a never ending source of pleasure.

I hope it is for you as well.


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