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Staggered Corduroy With Japanese Overlay
(With Beads)
Article © MAIL User: dreamweaver
| Tutorial for the Staggered Corduroy With Japanese Overlay | |
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| To make this bracelet using this weave, you will need: 10 - 6 mm fibre optic beads 2 - Crimp tubes 25 cm of beading wire 20 - 14 gauge (G) 10 mm Inside Diameter (ID) sterling silver jump rings 65 - 18 G 5 mm ID sterling silver jump rings | |
| Step 1: Close 4 (four) of the 18 G jump rings. Open one of the 18 G jump rings and place the 4 (four) closed jump rings on it, close the opened jump ring. Repeat Step 1. 10 (ten) more times. | |
| Step 2: Arrange 2 (two) sets of the jump rings into a “basket” or “clover” (B/C) as shown. Look at the image closely and make sure you have your rings in the same configuration. |  |
| Step 3. Open 1 (one) of the 14 G jump rings and weave it through 2 (two) of the rings on 1 (one) of a B/C units, and 2 (two) rings on another B/C unit, as shown. Repeat Step 3. until all of the B/C units 10 (ten) are connected together with a 14 G jump ring. |  |
| Step 4. Open 2 (two) of the 18 G jump rings. Using 1 (one) of the opened rings, loop it through each of the B/C units rings on one side of the unit, making sure that the new 18 G ring is inside the 14 G ring added in Step 3. Repeat this step using the second opened 18 G ring, this time you are looping through the remaining 2 (two) rings inside the 14 G ring added in Step 3. Figure 6. Demonstrates the positioning of the newly added 18 G rings. Repeat Step 4 until all of the sets of rings have been linked. |  |
| Step 5. Open 1 (one) 14 G ring and loop it through 4 (four) of the cross-link rings (rings added in Step 4) as shown. Note that the B/C rings are on the bottom of the weave. |  |
| Once you have looped all of the cross-linking rings using the 14 G rings you will notice that the weave has contracted (shrunk in length). This happens because the process of adding the 14 G rings “pulls” the weave together and gives it a third dimension, the weave is no longer flat as shown. Now comes the fun part adding the beads to the weave. |  |
| Step 6. Using the beading wire and a crimp tube, crimp the wire around the top orbit ring in the Corduroy Row Weave as shown in Figure 9 inside the red outline box. Trim off excess wire from the loose end, but leaving enough to go into the bead being added in the next step. |  |
| Step 7. Add the bead to the wire as shown. Then weave the beading wire under the ring the bead sits in, and under the next orbital ring, making sure you place the wire also between the 2 (two) vertical rings. In the figure to the right, the red line indicates the direction the beading wire is going, and the toothpick demonstrates the fact that the wire is going under the 2 (two) orbital rings and between the 2 (two) vertical rings. |  |
| Add the next bead as shown. Continue to add the beads until all of the beads have been added using the same technique as described in Step 7. |  |
| This figure shows the underside of the bracelet as the beads are being woven into the bracelet. The red lines indicate the beading wire as it appears on the underside of the bracelet. |  |
| Step 8. Crimp the beading wire as close as possible to the orbital ring and the last bead. Add the clasp of your choice to the bracelet. | |
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