Bows, flowers, stems, petals - French weaving!

What is a bead? Beads are small beads of different colors, shapes and sizes. From these beads you can weave everything, which is enough for fantasy. Some are fond of weaving jewelry, many weave a variety of flowers, trees and other plants. Someone likes animals and insects from beads, and someone - weaving paintings. As you can see, from these wonderful little beads you can weave anything you want. There are many techniques of weaving from beads. Let us dwell on some of them.

French weaving technique

One of the most interesting techniques of weaving is French weaving. Nothing surprising, because the flowers, trees and even leaves, made in such an unusual technique, look very beautiful, voluminous and "alive". In another way, this technique can be defined as weaving with arcs or in a circle. There is another weaving parallel, it is a little easier, but very similar.

French weaving with beads differs in that in the center of each woven thing and in each plant there is a strong rod. More often it is made of wire. Beads are thicker on the wire, and then alternately, attaching a bottom to the top, to the left and to the right of the rod, they have a thin wire with a smaller bead. Each turn of the wire is attached to the rod by one curl, and the last move by two. Thus, we get a leaf. The ends on one side must be hidden, on the other hand, cut off and slightly "fluffed" by inserting it into the flower to keep the leaflet. With the weaving of flowers, everything is a bit more complicated. Usually there are several techniques used, often parallel and French beading techniques.

French weaving with beads - the technique is very interesting and easily feasible. As in any work, just need to follow the instructions, carefully perform the weave, step by step carefully stringing the beads on the wire. You should try your hand at weaving flowers and leaves. One of the most uncomplicated flowers is the violet. What does that require? Beads of several colors, a beautiful small pot, thin and thick wire, silk threads or a green line, green and lilac beads, and yellow medium beads for stamens, not much larger but larger than beads. For starters, you can make a small violet of seven colors and nine leaves. To revive the flower a bit, it is worth taking a small green bead on a lighter tone and using it to weave leaflets in the last row.

If you combine all the flowers and leaves with each other, you get a wonderful violet. Place it in a beautiful pot, graft it and place it in the most prominent place in your apartment. This technique of weaving can do many wonderful things for the home and a lot of jewelry for you personally.

French weaving with beads makes it possible to create petals of flowers and leaflets not only of round shape, but acute-angled. This can be achieved by changing the angle of inclination of the arcs when attaching to the rod. Just when connecting a thin wire to a thick one, you need to change the angle, for example, degrees 45. So the leaf turns out sharp corners.

French bow of beads

For weaving such a bow must take the beads of red and pink flowers, needle, silk thread, fishing line, but it is best to use the wire. To make a French bow, you need 4 diamonds: two larger, two smaller. The rhombus begins to weave from the center first to one side, then the second one. Take and put two beads on the wire and fix them, passing one end of the wire from the other side. Then three, four, five, and so on. Then we return and we weave the other side. Thus, we weave four diamonds and then connect them to the bows. Large diamonds are better to weave from red beads, and small ones are made of pink. French bow of beads is ready. From the bow you can make a brooch or an elegant hairpin, as well as clips for curtains and many other decorations.