How to weave bracelets of rubber bands with beads?

Do you like making beautiful accessories yourself? Try to weave the original bracelets of rubber bands with beads. You can make jewelry with or without special tools. Below we will consider several ways of working. Choose a suitable option for yourself.

Bracelets made of rubber bands with beads

Schemes of making such jewelry can be very different. Accessories are easy to make:

• Single row.
• Double row.
• Without gaps.
• With "little windows" between the beads.
• Of round elements or cylindrical.
• From big or small.
• In the form of an ordered line or in a chaotic arrangement between the rubber bands.

As you can see, there are many options.

Materials and devices

To make bracelets made of rubber bands with beads, you will need the following:

• Color bands Rainbow loom bands (better original branded).
• Beads of suitable size (from sets or purchased separately).
• Hook (special or usual for knitting).
• Slingshot.
• Machine.
• Clasp-clip.

If you practice, then some options you can easily perform and without any adaptations, just on your fingers. Usually use the middle and index free hands (for right-handed - left and, accordingly, vice versa). By the way, instead of a hook the usual toothpick will approach, although it is not so convenient for her to work. Tools facilitate work, help you and simplify the weaving.

Beginning of work

Before learning how to weave bracelets made of rubber bands with beads, it is worth training in preparing the elements for work.

Regardless of the technology used, you will need to pre-wear the beads on the rubber bands. If one shade is chosen for braiding, the preparatory stage will be as follows:

1. Take the desired number of beads and the corresponding number of elastics.
2. Prepare a wire of short length (5-10 cm) and a thickness so that it folds twice, it passes through the hole in the bead.
3. Fold the cut piece in half in the form of a loop.
4. Fasten the elastic band in the loop.
5. Thread the wire with a fixed rubber band through the hole in the bead so that one end of the rubber is on the other side of the hole, and the other is left at the beginning.
6. Do the same with all the beads.

As a result, before you will lie beads, which on each side of the hole is a loop of elastic bands. With the material prepared in advance it is easier to work in the future. You do not need to be distracted by passing through the beads during the weaving process.

In addition to the above method, you can use one more, when a needle and thread are used instead of wire. The rubber, passed through the hole in the bead, is fixed not in the eyelet from the wire, but on the thread, previously inserted into the needle, which is tied with a knot.

The easiest way to weave on your fingers

You can weave bracelets made of rubber bands with beads on the slingshot, but easy options are made quickly even without any attachments. In this bracelet the beads will go successively one by one, in contact with each other, that is between them there is no intertwining of elastic bands.

The sequence of work is:

1. Take an empty rubber band and put it on the middle and index fingers of the left hand (if you are a right-hander) in the form of a figure-eight.
2. The next elastic band, with a bead, should also be sewn with the eyelets on these fingers.
3. Remove the previous elastic band to the left and right to the middle through the fingertips.
4. Repeat the previous two steps until the desired length of the bracelet.
5. After fixing the last bead, put on an empty rubber band and discard the loops of the rubber band with the bead on it.
6. Secure the clips in the loops formed.
7. The second end of the fastener hook on the very first loop of the bracelet.

Work is done.

Method number 2

This option can be tried as a first experiment instead of the previous one. The work goes like this:

1. Put on two poles of the machine, slingshot or self-made device from the fixed pair of pins of the rubber band in the form of a figure-eight.
2. Put on the following rubber band with a bead.
3. Throw off the loops formed by the previous rubber band, to the middle through the top between the posts.
4. Put on the next empty rubber band.
5. Throw off the loops from the gum with the bead to the middle between the posts in the same way as step 3.
6. Put on the following rubber band with a bead. As you can see, this is already a repeat of step 2.
7. Work in the same sequence until you get the desired length of the decoration.
8. Fasten the clip by connecting the bracelet to the ring.

One more simple ornament is made.

Weaving bracelets of elastic bands with beads on the slingshot

To get a simple single-row version, where the beads go consistently without omissions, but with the braiding of each bead on both sides, work as follows:

1. Put the gum on both horns of the slingshot, crossing it as a figure-eight.
2. Put two more elastic bands on both posts without crossing.
3. Pick up the bottom elastic on each side and peel the loops through the top to the middle between the horns of the slingshot.
4. Take the prepared bead and put the eyelets on the horns of the slingshot.
5. Tear off the lower elastic band on the right and left through the top to the middle, securing the elastic with the bead.
6. Put on both horns of the slingshot another rubber without beads and without crossing.
7. Pull off the eyelets of the gum on which the bead is located, also through the top to the middle between the bars, fixing the elastic band, put on the previous step
8. Put on the following rubber band with a bead.
9. Throw off the loops of the bottom band through the top to the middle. As you can see, the 8th and 9th steps repeat 4 and 5.
10. Braid in such a sequence until the desired length of the bracelet.
11. Fasten the last loops and install the clip-clasp at one end into the final loops, and the second - in the first.

The product is complete.

Alternative tools for work

So, you learned already several ways how to weave a bracelet made of rubber bands with beads. The first, in contrast to the next two, was suggested to do on the fingers. In fact, all three methods are suitable for work without special tools, if you do not have them. In addition to fingers, you can use a homemade tool instead of a slingshot. It is enough to connect two sticks, for example markers at a short distance. Spacer is easy to make from an eraser or a part from the designer "Lego". All the elements are easy to fasten with conventional tape. The completed device will help to make the work much easier, since all your fingers will be free.

Double row bracelet

Very beautiful and at the same time simple bracelets made of rubber bands with beads can be made on the machine. For this, only four bars will be needed. Decoration in this case is obtained consisting of two rows of weaving, between which the beads are located, at a certain distance or without it.

For the first experiment, take a rubber band of the same color. The distance between the beads can be taken by anyone. The main thing is that here you will have to count the number of elastics interwoven between the beads. Work as follows:

1. The first pair of rubber bands put on your four bars on the diagonals, that is cross-wise.
2. The next gum put on a nearby pair of posts, and the second on the far.
3. Remove the lower elastic bands inside the four posts through the top.
4. Now put two rubber bands on each pair of posts, as in step 2.
5. Pull down the bottom bands to the middle.
6. Repeat steps 2, 3 with one rubber band, put on each pair of posts.
7. Put on an elastic band with a bead so that one eyelet is stretched out on two columns nearest to you, and the second loop - on two distant.
8. Lower the hinges to the middle.
9. Put on one rubber band for every two bars and take off the bottom tabs to the middle.

In fact, the general principle of weaving is outlined. Then you can repeat the actions in the way you want yourself, that is, position beads through three or four rubber bands. If you initially decided to alternate the gums of two different colors, count the loops and arrange the shades in accordance with the chosen pattern. The sequence shown above, when double and single gums alternate, is convenient in the case of using an odd number of gums of different tones. In fact, you can use only single or only pairs of options, if you are alternating two through two, for example. In a word, having understood the principle of work, you can create absolutely different variants of ornaments.

As you can see, weave bracelets made of rubber bands with beads quite simply. Choose the scheme you like. Learn, practice. Create beautiful accessories for yourself and your girlfriends.