Bracelet rush beads letters and coloured chevrons

Message bracelets have been all the rage in recent years. Whether it's an inspiring, humorous, offbeat word or a name, the important thing is that it's a message that sounds like you, just like the colours you choose. Whether it's letter beads or beads with colourful shapes, we have a very large choice to offer you.

To know how many beads to order, a little mental calculation is necessary. The memory wire has a perimeter of 188 mm or 18.8 cm for one turn. The clasp plus the loops are 3 cm. You will therefore need to buy enough beads to make 18.8-3=15.5 cm. For square or rectangular beads, it's easy, the size is indicated on the product sheet or in the title. For herringbone beads, from the tip to the corner to the centre, count about 1 cm for large beads and 0.5 cm for medium beads. The thinnest beads you will find on the site do not have the same angle or thickness so they will not fit perfectly with the two herringbone references in this tutorial.

Once you have selected your beads, you will also need to equip yourself with a pair of shear pliers and a good quality round pliers as the memory wire is very hard and will put your pliers to the test. It's a wire that looks like a spring and automatically returns to its shape. It is very useful for making multi-row bracelets or rush bracelets.