Cin wrote:
I"m planning a necklace, as an accessory to a 15th c Italian gown, and
would like to know if, and how, to make one that is a continuous
strand. The clerk at the bead shop didnt know how. All she wanted to
do was sell me inappropriate findings. I'm sure there's a way, I just
dont know what to call it so I can search online.
There's a nice trick you can do when you string the old-fashioned way on a
double strand. It places the two knots in different spots:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9555/loop.htm
And here if you intend to knot between each bead:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9555/knottedloop.htm
This is the main page:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9555/beading.htm
You may need to read some of the other pages to understand things like the
leader thread method of stringing and the knotting and finishing techniques,
but it's worth it. This guy taught me things I didn't already know. These are
old, traditional techniques, but in all my years of beading, I am the only
person I've known who strings and knots like this. Everyone else I've met on
the circuit uses crimps and other "inappropriate findings."
One thing I do differently from this fellow is to not trim my knots close;
after glueing the knot, I use the leader thread to pull the excess ends
through several beads, the ends going in opposite directions, and trim off the
rest where it emerges. So there's a few beads on each side of the knot where
there's three strands inside the beads rather than two. If you're doing
continuous stringing, you will need to separate your knots by several beads in
order to do this, so the end bits from the two knots don't overlap in the
middle. (All this will make sense after you're used to the technique.)
--Robin
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