If you like original, elegant rings, you'll love this step-by-step tutorial on how to make a piece of soutache jewelry. With a little patience and practice, the soutache technique will hold no more secrets for you! In this DIY, we offer you French-made soutache, which is pleasant to work with thanks to its good hold. It's ideal for making embroidered jewelry.
Do you know soutache? It's a narrow, flat, braided and textured braid traditionally found in the haberdashery and trimmings department. Originally used to adorn garments or lampshades, soutache is now enjoying a renaissance with the trend for textile jewelry and bead embroidery.
Thanks to Julie Roméro for creating this step-by-step tutorial, and check out our other jewelry tutorials made with soutache.
It's a truly elegant ring, original in form and technique, and it's up to you to choose the colors of soutache and beads to personalize it.
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NB: Please note that the list of products below does not fully correspond to the presentation photo. For stock reasons, some products in this tutorial have been replaced by equivalents. The "Moss Green" 12 mm Rivoli cabochon has been replaced by an "Emerald" cabochon.
Place a small amount of glue in the center of your soutache.
Circle the rivoli.
Start sewing around the rivoli.
Add a hematite in the center to mask the void.
Thread a top and sew it to the left outer edge, rolling up the soutache.
Thread a hematite and sew it to the left of the spinning top.
Continue adding hematites to the left, creating a row that encircles the cabochon.
Create a loop on the right-hand side of your work, thread a PureCrystal spinner and sew it inside the loop.
Place a small amount of glue in the center of 15 cm of soutache.
Surround your shuttle, then attach it by sewing it to the previous soutache module.
The result is as follows.
Cut the shape of the ring from a piece of dultra suede.
Cut in the middle (very little).
Pass your base through the small hole in the middle.
Apply glue to the back of your work as shown in the photo below.
Glue everything together and leave to dry.
To secure, sew the soutache with the suedette.
Trim excess suede, if any, and clean up glue residue with a cotton swab and nail polish remover.
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