Monday, 16 July 2012

Seed Beads for Beaded Beads

Now “How to make beaded beads?” has become the daily question which would be asked by a large amount of jewelry making lovers. Beads totally made by beads? Well, this crazy thought has become into reality far before I begin to realize the existence of this wonderful idea.

In the world of jewelry making, these incredible things continue to happen at a much faster speed. We have many things yet waiting for us to learn. Such as beaded beads, which after the appearance of Beading Quilts Project, has become the hot topic in beauty chasing world.

And as the beading quilt project, beaded beads project also need a large sum of seed beads. Thus for a beaders and jewelers, please be noted if your usually beads and jewelry making supplies wholesaler can offer you seed beads in full size and full color.

Yellow AB Color Glass Seed Beads for Jewelry Making AB Color Glass Seed Beads

Approx: 4mm x 3.5mm
Hole size: 1mm
Thickness: 3.5mm
Mixed Glass Tube Seed Beads

Approx: 7mm x 2mm
Hole size: 0.6mm
Thickness: 2mm(1/8")
Mixed Glass Tube Seed Beads 7x2mm(1/4"x1/8") Jewelry Making
Mixed Glass Seed Beads 3mm Jewelry Making Mixed Glass Seed Beads

Approx: 3mm x 3mm
Hole size: 0.8mm
Thickness: 3mm(1/8")

Seed beads come mainly in two main categories, glass seed beads and acrylic seed beads. Both of the two categories are very handy. However, when we are doing our beading work we should be careful with the fragmentary side corners which remain beside the seed bead. They’re usually very sharp and can easily cut the fingers. Well, the seamless safety measure we can take is wearing a pair of gloves.

Sunday, 15 July 2012

Wax Cotton Cord and Cord Bracelet

What can we do with cotton wax cord? Well, this is really a tough question. Cotton wax cord is as all the other string things. However, these cords are much softer than leather cord, much thinner than Elastic Beading Cords.

Beading and stringing things are the daily usage for jewelers and crafter's. Usually in their eyes, nothing in the world is useless; nothing in the world is ugly. And anything in the world can be used to make beautiful and stunning designs.

Maybe that’s the eternal motto of the handmade world – Everything is beautiful, but most of us have neglected their charm. When artisans perceive it, huge aesthetic feeling can be infused into them after a creative mergence and alteration.

Wholesale Mixed Wax Cotton Cord 1mm

Wholesale Mixed Wax Cotton Cord

Six colored Mixed wax cotton cord, 1 mm sort is so much easier for threading beads.
And also very good for Shamballa bracelet.

Mixed Wax Cotton Cord

1.5mm sort

No matter for your beading work or your cord bracelet making, these colorful cotton wax cord are the gold match for your design.

Mixed Wax Cotton Cord 1.5mm

Cotton wax cords are one of the jewelry making findings whose usage are heavily underestimated . When we begin to recognize its huge creativity buried deep into the corner, a huge demand for these originally humble cords shows up.

Cotton wax cord is the perfect material to make knotted bracelet and anklets, to braiding Shamballa bracelets, and also to be used as macramé.

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Steampunk Hit the French Barrette Design

No matter she is a little girl, a young lady, an adult woman, or even an old lady, beauty is her eternal pursuit. Hair dressing, as the quickest effect or beauty decoration process, has become lady’s top beauty dressing issue.

Hair accessories have become more various and more colorful. Changing with the fashion trend, hair accessories have also maintained its ever-changing status. However the sweet and retro styles have never deviate from the main stream.

Sweet French-style Barrette clips are often used by moms to dress their spoiled rotten princesses and sweet style barrette clips are also beloved by older girls. And the retro style hair accessories are mainly represented by the recently very hot steampunk style.

Steampunk Barrette
Three Gears Steampunk French style Barrettes
Steampunk French Style Barrette By Roger
teampunk French Style Barrette By Roger
Dragonfly on a Gear Steampunk Barrette
Dragonfly on a Gear Steampunk Barrette

Usually, French-style barrette hairclip making supplies wholesale price is very low. Hairclip making supplies are only semi-finished products, however when handmade artisans add some jewelry making findings onto it, immediately the previous simple and ugly roughcast be infused with life.

Antique Bronze Filigree Flower French Hair Barrette Clips
French Style Barrette Making Supplies (click to see more )

Monday, 9 July 2012

Lampworking and Lampwork Beads

Multicolor Foil Murano Lampwork Glass Beads

Lampwork beads are fashionable and pretty. However, the process of lampworking is a difficult task. Lampwork glass beads have entered in many jewelry artisans’ beads storage box, been added into many bracelet and bracelet design project, and even been molded into ready to use flower lampwork pendants.

Why lampwork beads are so popular? I think it has many to do with the manufacturing process. Lampworking is a type of glasswork that uses a gas fueled torch to melt rods and tubes of clear and colored glass. While lampwork beads are formed by blowing and shaping with tools and hand movements when the glass is in a molten state.

Wholesale Lampwork Glass Charms Pendants

Foil Lampwork Glass Rectangle Pendants

Size: 45mmx24mm
Hole Size: 6mm
Thickness: 13mm

Mixed Multicolour Foil Lampwork Glass Rectangle Charm Pendants
Mixed Millefiori Glass Lampwork Heart Charm Pendants

Millefiori Glass Lampwork Pendants

Size: 20mmx20mm
Hole size: 2.3mm x 4.5mm
Thickness: 4.5mm

Lampwork glass artisans working under heat which is sometimes unbearable for normal people. While the most beautiful work is always out of the hardest experience, it’s just because of lampwork artisans’ hardworking that beautiful and charming lamgwork beads come into being.

Handmade lamwprok glass beads are a fancy and sparkling choice for bracelet or necklace and other jewelry making. While compared with the lampwork beads collectors, jewelry making artisans’ passion could be negligible.

Wholesale Lampwork Glass Beads

Mixed Lampwork Glass Foil Heart Beads 12x12mm

Silver & Gold Foil Lampwork Beads

Material: Glass
Size:12mm x 12mm
Hole: 1mm
Thickness: 8mm

Flower Faceted Lampwork Glass Beads

Size: 13mmx8mm
1.2mm
Thickness: 8mm

Mixed Flower Faceted Lampwork Glass Beads

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Chain Material for Braiding Friendship Bracelets

Friendship link chain Bracelet with metal chain

Metal Chains and silver plated chains have found another very brilliant way to show on our Wrist. When nylon cords and metal chains are intertwined together, a wonderful design could be made. That is the most trendy and popular braiding bracelet.

All we need to finish this bracelet are a piece of metal chain (choose the color attract you most), a lobster clasp (used to connect the Chain), a piece of long enough braiding cord. Very simple~

Blue Link-Opened Curb Aluminum Chains 6x3.5mm Pink Link-Opened Curb Aluminum Chains 6x3.5mm
Blue Link-Opened Curb Aluminum Chains Pink Link-Opened Curb Aluminum Chains

With the metal chain braiding bracelet being increasingly hot, jewelry making supplies wholesalers have correspondingly increased their metal chain types. Silver plated metal chains are not the only things crafters and handmade crafts consumers’ loved color, but also colorful metal chains.

The biggest chanllenge for handmade small business owners and also for jewelry making supplies wholesalers are to sensing the fashion trend and finally lead the way of fashion.

Beads and Wood Dream Catcher

Where our beads can be used to? The common ways are to make beaded jewelry, while beaded jewelry is not the most beads consumptive way. When we know how many beads a Beading Quilts Project need, we would get stunned.

Today we’ll neither talking about beaded jewelry nor Beading Quilt Project, instead, the topic we’ll discuss is Beaded Dream Catcher. What dream catcher is? And what are they used for?

Wood and Beads Dream Catcher Wood and Beads Dream Catcher
Earth Yellow Colored background give this dream Catcher a dream feeling.

Dream catchers are one of the most fantastic traditions of Native Americans. From a very nice pinner, Natascha, I know the origin of dream catcher. Though her explanation is a little different with that on Wikipedia, I choose to believe in her for her definition for dream catcher is so sweet and beautiful. I should thank you for Natascha’s detailed answer. Following is her explanation.

The origin of Dream Catcher (From Natascha)

Dream Catchers are traditionally a First Nations (Native North Americans) gift given by family to children with the intent that good dreams are channeled to the child and bad dreams are trapped and then destroyed by the first rays of the morning sun.

Beads and Wood Dream Catcher Beads and Wood Dream Catcher
Sea blue make the dream catchers seems much more like fairy tale thing.

The tradition of Dream Catcher( From website)

Dream catchers are one of the most fascinating traditions of Native Americans. The traditional dream catcher was intended to protect the sleeping individual from negative dreams, while letting positive dreams through. The positive dreams would slip through the hole in the center of the dream catcher, and glide down the feathers to the sleeping person below.

The nickname of Dream Catcher

The negative dreams would get caught up in the web, and expire when the first rays of the sun struck them. Many would call them dust catchers (each to his own).

What are dream catchers used for?

Generally they are designed to hang over a child’s bed or in a window; many of the pieces of wood that I find tend to lend themselves to table top versions.

From my view, Dream Catcher is so beautiful and full of creation and nice wishes. Beads and Wood, cleverly used by crafter, can be a huge inspiration source. Handmade crafts should be highly appreciated.

Picture sourcing from www.dreamcatcherarts.com