How to make a bead machine with your own hands

Beading is one of the most common and popular types of needlework. Labor is painstaking, but at the same time fascinating. To create one thing you can spend a lot of time, so you need patience and perseverance. To help needlewomen there is a special device - a beading machine, which will help quickly and accurately produce any jewelry or accessory.

How does the machine look like?

The device can be purchased at specialized shops where goods for handicrafts are sold, or ordered on the Internet site. Outwardly it resembles a specially designed frame made of wood or plastic. In order to fix the work, a special spring is provided. You can meet different in size machines. For example, the working surface can be eleven by sixteen centimeters.

Special coils allow you to adjust the tension of the threads. If you do not have the opportunity to purchase a useful thing, it's more profitable to make a bead machine by yourself. Then, when you create it, you can take into account all the necessary nuances.

Ways of machine weaving

Special devices are designed for direct weaving in the weaving technique. Initially, the machine fixes several threads. Their number determines the width of the future product. Threads are placed on the working surface at an angle of forty-five degrees strictly opposite to each other. Thus, you are guaranteed to receive a smooth and neat little thing. Now you need to tie a working line with a needle to the base, type beads on it in accordance with a pre-selected pattern, pass it under the threads tightened on the machine, distribute beads evenly between them.

Now you need to thread the line through the beads. Thus it is necessary to watch, that a thread laid down above a basis. So the first row of the future bracelet or belt will be obtained. Well, if you yourself have designed a bead machine, how to use it, you already know in advance.

A special bolt will help to regulate the length of the product, which will wind the already woven fabric. When the weaving is complete, the base is removed from the machine. Extra threads must be fastened (tied up) and trimmed. They can be plaited in a pigtail and make a buckle. The machine provides ample opportunities for creativity. You can change not only the length, but also the width of the product.

Patterns for beadwork

Drawing for weaving can be chosen from those that are offered for cross-stitching. They can be found in specialized magazines on needlework. If you have already chosen an image, it's enough to break it into squares and proceed from this scheme when weaving the product.

How to create a machine on your own

If you are not satisfied with the finished product, it is enough to consider several ways how to make a bead machine on its own at home. It's pretty simple.

You will need a ruler, cardboard, several clerical clamps, metal corners. The cover from the album, the old book, will be useful as a basis. Heavy paper, after preliminary applying marking on it to the ruler in DM, bend in the shape of the corner and fasten on it. On the cardboard make a slot. There are two such pieces to make. The edges of the base are also marked in this way. After that, both blanks are arranged on two sides, opposite each other. At them, at an equal distance, the threads are stretched. Their ends need to be twisted together and attached to the base with clerical clothespins.

More simple, but also quite convenient is a bead machine made from a board. It will take a piece of cardboard. It should be folded in half, making equal cuts in the bend at equal distances. Such details will require two. Then prepare a flat board. On it from both sides to fix cardboard blanks. Now you can draw the threads and get to work.

You can get a machine from the shoe box, on the opposite sides of which make the same cuts - they fix the working threads. A more professional design is obtained if you create it from wood or metal parts. At the same time, it is necessary to focus on existing models.

Tips for the Masters

Much depends not only on what you have a bead machine, but also on the quality of beads, so the preference should be given to Czech or Japanese material. Then you are guaranteed to receive a neat product. Working on the machine, it is important to make the first row correctly. He is the most difficult. Because the beads do not stick and slip. To measure an already finished product, it is sufficient to use a pin with a plastic head as a label. It does not matter what kind of beadwork machine you have: bought in a store or made by yourself. The main thing is that thanks to this device you can create an excellent thing in just one evening without making extra efforts.