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BASICS OF BEAD STRINGING AND ATTACHING CLASPS: The Lariat
Take advantage of my online video tutorials, including BASICS OF BEAD STRINGING AND ATTACHING CLASPS.
ONLINE VIDEO TUTORIAL COURSES and their PREVIEWS:
Orientation To Beads & Jewelry Findings
So You Want To Do Craft Shows…
Pricing and Selling Your Jewelry
Naming Your Business
The Jewelry Designer’s Approach To Color
Basics of Bead Stringing and Attaching Clasps
Pearl Knotting… Warren’s Way
LARIATS
Materials needed:
.014”/.015” or .018”/.019” cable wire
enough of a mix of seed beads and Czech glass beads (3mm — 6mm in size) to
cover 36” of cable wire
crimp beads
horseshoe wire protectors
crimp covers
end caps or bead caps or cones (2 of them)
head pins (2 of them)
2 decorative beads, perhaps teardrop shaped, about 18mm in size
Tools needed:
crimping pliers
chain nose pliers
flat nose pliers
scissors
side cutters or…