How to make a bracelet out of rubber bands: tips for beginners

Now many are addicted to making jewelry with their own hands. If you have never done this and do not know how to make a bracelet out of rubber bands, where to start and what you need, learn a few instructions below, follow the advice - and then quickly master the creation of simple products from the rainbow loom bands.

Tools and materials

Before you start learning how to make a bracelet out of elastic bands, you should prepare everything you need to work so that you do not just read it, but step-by-step perform the product. You will need:

• Gum of one or more colors;
• Clasp-clips (for joining the weaving in the ring of the bracelet);
• A hook (for convenience of pododevaniya and skidyvaniya rubber);
• Beads, if you want to use them to decorate the weave;
• Machine for work or slingshot (mini-machine).

If you just want to try a new technique for yourself needlework, so as not to spend extra money to buy all of the above, stop your choice on the rubber bands of the same color and take that number of fasteners, how many bracelets do you want to make. For the first experience, this will be enough, because you can perform weaving even on your fingers or on a self-made slingshot from sticks or rods attached together.

Set for bracelets made of rubber bands

If you really want to work with rainbow loom bands, then make sure that the tools and materials you purchase are of the proper quality. It is best to buy branded rubber, and not cheap analogs. Faking can break at the most inopportune moment, when you finish the weaving or are trying on the product. The same applies to the slingshot and the hook. The sticks of the specialized machine have grooves on one side, which greatly facilitates the process of discarding the rubber bands. Some types of complex weaving can be performed using hollow posts. If you are going to weave broad bracelets or exclusive products consisting, for example, of several flowers or other objects, you will definitely need a machine with more than two columns.

The most optimal option is to purchase a ready-made set for weaving, where there is everything you need. They are, of course, expensive, but they will not have to be looked for separately. There are kits, which include a lot of rubber bands of different colors, a few stitch, hooks and even beads of all shapes and sizes.

Bracelets made of rubber bands by their own hands: technology of work

Understanding the general principle of manufacturing, you can easily create unusual decorations, not only by schemes, but also independently, coming up with your own design. Start with narrow products that weave on two posts. The sequence of execution is always this:

1. You put the first elastic band on both columns, twisted as a figure eight.
2. Put on one or more elastic bands without twisting to both posts.
3. You take off the lower rubber band through the top of the posts to the middle.
4. Wear again on both columns without twisting the right amount of rubber bands and continue the sequence to the desired length of the bracelet.
5. Fasten the clasp-clip with one end (curl) for the last stitch of the weave. If there are several of them, you throw them all one by one and then remove it from the clip. The second end is fixed in the first loop of the bracelet.

The number of rubber bands on either or each bar, the colors used, all depend on the particular type of bracelet.

Option for beginners (on the fingers)

To make bracelets from small rubber bands in the simplest way, work like this:

1. Put on both fingers one rubber, twisted as a figure eight.
2. Put on the second elastic without twisting, also on both fingers.
3. Throw off the first elastic band through the tips of the fingers to the middle between them.
4. Put on one more rubber without twisting, discard the lower one again to the middle.
5. Repeat step 4 to the desired length.
6. Fasten the weave to the clip.

The simplest bracelet is ready.

Use beads

If you do not just want to learn how to weave bracelets out of rubber bands, and dream of making an unusual decoration in a simple way, use the weaving technique from the previous section, but instead of rubber bands that are worn on both posts without twisting, use rubber bands on which beads are strung.

To pass the rubbery folded through the hole in the bead, choose those elements that have it wider, and also use a little cunning:

1. Attach a thin wire, bent in half, to the rubber, just putting on the elastic band to the point of folding. Get a loop of wire with a rubber hanging on it.
2. Connect the loose ends of the wire together and thread them into the hole in the bead.
3. Passing through the hole, the wire will stretch the rubber band behind it.

If there is no wire at hand, use the same needle and thread (thread and will act as a wire). Before beginning braiding, it is better to prepare all beads at once, so that they are already strung on the gum.

"Fish tail" on a slingshot

If you want to learn how to make a bracelet from a rubber band more complex structure, use the following technology:

1. Put two rubber horns on both horns, crossed with a figure-eight.
2. Put on the pair of the following elastics on both posts already without crossing.
3. Throw off the lower rubber band through the tops of the posts to the middle.
4. Put on the next rubber band without crossing on both horns, and turn off the bottom to the middle.
5. Repeat step 4 to the desired length.
6. Fasten the clip-clasp.

It turned out a simple bracelet whose weaving is called "Fish tail".

So, now you know how to make a bracelet out of rubber bands. Even if you did not buy a set for this type of needlework, and purchased only rubber bands of the same color, this is enough to make simple, but interesting jewelry yourself.