How to create charming bead trees with your own hands?

Beading is one of the types of needlework. You can make beautiful jewelry or accessories from beads. You can also create charming bead trees with your own hands, which then can be presented as a gift to someone.

Beadwork significantly differs from other types of needlework in which beads and glass beads are used, because here they are not only decorating elements, but also - the constructing material.

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You will need for weaving:

- beads (number 9), color yellow - 50 - 60 grams;

- beads (number 15), color yellow - 10 - 15 grams;

- beads (round, number 10), color, like a bugle - 10 - 15 grams;

- Bugles, green color - 50 grams;

- wire;

- thread (silk), color brown;

- ribbon (floristic), color brown;

- Scotch tape (paint);

- pot (ceramics);

- glue universal, color transparent;

- alabaster;

- stones.

Weaving:

The weaving of the bead trees begins with the cutting of the wire, the length of which must be (in the proposed scheme) not less than 1.3 meters.

From the edge you need to retreat 10 centimeters and dial 5 beads (number 15) yellow, then twist the wire 7 turns (this is about 6 - 7 millimeters).

Then it is necessary to make two more such flowers on either side of the first.

After that, another wire 0.2 meters long is cut off and folded in half. One of its ends is added to the twig, and the second bundle wraps the whole bunch, you need to make 2-3 turns.

After this, you need to make two more flowers from 5 beads, which should be located below all three, which were woven earlier. Then again it is necessary to wind the twig with wire (3 - 4 turns).

The next 2 rows are made from 8 flowers, 4 of which will be with 7 beads (they are in the first row), and 4 more - from 10 (in the second). Then everything is fixed by 3 turns of wire.

Further the rows are woven from the larger beads (number 9). The first line consists of two flowers with three beads. The next two rows - from 4 flowers (each) with 5 beads, then 2 more - from 4 flowers to 7 beads (each). If you think that the twigs are small, you can make two more rows of 4 flowers of 9 beads (each). With such branches your trees from beads will look more magnificent with their own hands.

For a tree, approximately 15 to 17 such flower twigs are needed.

Trees from beads with their own hands can not do without foliage, so now it will be told about how branches with leaves are made.

For the beginning the wire is cut off, the length of which should be 0,6 - 0,7 meters. On the center are typed: bugles (1 piece), beads (5 pieces) and bugles (1 piece). Then a loop of wire is twisted, approximately 7 turns. In the same way, the other leaves are twisted on a branch. In each row there should be two sheets, between the lines - 7 turns, and from leaf to stem - 2 - 3. It will also require branches with 3 and 4 leaves in a row. All branches must be 60 pieces, each type of 20.

Now begins the main weaving of the beads of trees.

Two branches with leaves are taken, one with two, one with three, and are connected by means of a silk thread. In the same way, a branch with 4 leaves in a row and a flower branch is attached. The entire wire is wrapped around the thread and fixed below. Of all the blanks, double, triple and quadruple "paws" are assembled, which will be joined into a single tree.

After all the grapes are ready, large branches are made from them. Great "paws" (on the same principle as small ones) are connected, but they are already fastened with a floristic ribbon. Then each twig needs to be slightly thickened. To do this, take a paint tape and, retreating a couple of centimeters from the beads, wrapped them twigs. After that, the tape is taken again, and starting from the bead leaves and flowers, the whole stem is wrapped.

By this principle the remaining branches of the tree are made up, and then they are united into one whole - the tree.

You can experiment with the number of beads and twigs. By the same principle of weaving, you can create a variety of other bead trees with your own hands.