How to make a bracelet with gemstone beads?
Need a gift idea for a petanque fan or simply for yourself? Here is a tutorial to make a bracelet made of ruby-zoisite beads and silver plated petanque ball beads. The ruby-zoisite is a green colored stone with crystallized ruby and hornblende inlays. This stone symbolizes success. What could be better for a petanque tournament?
To make this bracelet, you will need a very strong wire, as gemstone beads and bocce ball beads are heavy and will strain most wires. You'll want to use a wired wire. Stranded wire is a relatively flexible but also rigid wire. It is made of braided metal strands, sometimes covered with a plastic sheath. The more strands in the corded wire, the more flexible and strong the wire is, but the more expensive it will be. This is the perfect wire for making bracelets with gemstone beads larger than 8mm in diameter.
To keep the wire strong on your project, you also need to use the right tools and techniques for finishing and adding the clasp. You can't tie knots with wired wire. Its lack of flexibility prevents us from doing so. Also, a knot could slip very easily. Therefore, you must use crushable beads. They should be neither too big nor too small. Go to this article to learn all about the beads to crush in costume jewelry.
Be careful, we used a magnetic clasp for the example tutorial but after thinking about it, it is not a good option for a ballerina. Indeed, the clasp will tend to cling to balls, metal accessories, door handles. So we suggest another non-magnetic clasp in the hardware list.
