These tubes can be made with several different techniques. Previously, we presented you how to weave the beads into a tube using the brick stitch technique. This technique is presented by Soria in video in this tutorial: Long necklace and earrings woven in brick stitch tube. But you can also weave the tube in beads flat in Brick Stitch or in Peyote and then sew together the two sides to form a tube. This is what Sev Rine showed you in her flower bracelet tutorial.
Making a cylinder out of seed beads is not complicated since you just have to use one of the two basic weaving techniques to make them. The purpose of the Live of September 24, 2021 is to give you another idea of creation with these cylinder beads and to show you the difference between circular (tubular) Peyote weaving, which allows you to make bangles, and the flat Peyote weaving which can be transformed into a tube.
Indeed, the weaving is not done in the same direction. That makes that these two techniques have different specificities: Tension between the beads, flexibility, appearance of the thread. While the circular weaving Peyote allows to realize pretty bracelets or rings, it happens that the smaller the diameter of the tube, the more the thread is seen between the pearls and the more the tube is flexible and soft. On the other hand, tubes woven in Peyote or Brick Stitch are rather rigid, even very rigid if there are few beads. You must therefore choose the technique best suited to your project.
The Simple Peyote and Brick Stitch techniques are very suitable for tube beads, bracelets, semi-rigid necklaces and rings.
The Circular Tubular Peyote technique will work well with bangle bracelets and rings.
Cut 1.5 m of weaving thread and thread it onto a needle. Thread 2 gold beads, 12 eucalyptus beads and 3 gold beads. Thread in the golden one as shown in the picture. Tighten.
Thread a eucalyptus bead through the bead as shown in the photo. Tighten the weave.
Repeat step 2. Each time, you must add a bead and go into the next bead and not the next.
Finish with a golden bead and pass through the very first golden bead strung.
Thread a new gold bead and pass through the one you added in the previous step in the other direction.
Now that the base of the Peyote is created, you just have to fill each space with a new pearl.
Once you have 8 beads on each row, pass the needle through the gold bead on the other side from the outside of the weave.
If you then tighten the thread, the weave will start to form a tube. The beads on each side will interlock with each other. Go through the beads that are sticking out to join them together.
You can go through the beads one by one or try to go through two at a time.
Here is how it looks. Don't forget to join the 2 gold beads at the bottom. Then pass the thread through the weave following diagonal beads to catch it in the beads. Then cut the excess thread. Do the same with the other end of the thread.
You need to weave 2 Sea foam tubes, 2 Eucalyptus tubes, 2 Evergreen tubes, 2 Plum Berry tubes and 6 Hawthorne tubes.
Put some jewellery glue in the gold tube and slide the cord through. It doesn't matter if the glue sticks out a little on the cord. You need a good amount to make sure it sticks. Leave it aside for 2 hours.
Make another weave with 4 beads high and 6 beads wide. Block the beginning thread in the weave and cut it. Keep only the longer of the two threads.
Close the weave directly on the cord by tightening very strongly. This step will prevent the other beads from slipping out of the cord. Add a little glue between the end cap and the weave, bringing the weave closer to the end cap. This will further strengthen the attachment.
Thread the following beads onto the cord. Between each tube, there is 1 flower washer, 1 golden tube and 1 flower washer. In the centre, the pendant is also framed by the same sequence of flower rings and gold tubes. Finish with the gold bead attachment shown in step 14 to 15. Cut the cord at 5 mm and glue the end to the cord and the golden pearl tube.
Wait 2 hours for the glue to dry, then add the clasp and the ring closed with an open ring on each side.
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