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Tutorial 5: Herringbone weave
By Eni Oken -
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This pretty and simpe weave (ashing) can easiy
be done over amost any kind of wrapped bead,
forming a "diamond" shape. Notice how the front
is different than the back, caused by the reguar
ashing. This technique is not my invention, it is
based on french beaded fower techniques and aso
in basketry.
Materials for each link:
1 đÑ round bead
2-1/2 feet 26 ga round soft wire
4Ñ 20ga round wire (soft or haf-hard).
Step 1: Create a simpe wrapped bead using a
medium gauge wire (for this exampe, 20
gauge wire was used with a 3/4 inch bead).
Make the wrap onger than you woud normay
and try to make both sides identica. It heps to
count how many times you have coied around
the eye. For this exampe, each side was coied
9 times.
Step 2: Attach a ength of thinner wire to the
base of the top eye by coiing twice. This
exampe used 2.5 feet of 26 gauge wire, but
you can use other gauges with good resuts.
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Step 3: Trim the wire tail at the top and take the
onger ength of wire to the bottom eye and oop
once. Its important to aways oop over the coils,
to form the herringbone weave.
Step 4: Take the wire to the top once more
and wrap it over the base of the eye again.
This wil form ONE compete frame around the
bead. Right now, the frame is rounded, but
soon it wil acquire its typical "diamond" shape.
Step 5: Take the wire down and up again
(steps 3 and 4), forming another frame around
the bead. This procedure wil be repeated as
many times as needed to form the diamond
shape.
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Step 6: After repeating the frame for about 3 or 4
times, the diamond shape and the herringbone
pattern starts to show.
Step 7: When you can no onger wrap, secure
the wire at the top by coiing twice around the
base of the eye. Trim very cosey. This
exampe shows the wire wrapped around the
bead 7 times.
Notice how the wire is smoothy aid on the
sides of the bead. This is done by taking care
with the pacement of the framing wire.
Aternative: if you eiminate the bottom eye, by
just foding the wire instead of rounding it, you
can make a pendant
Enjoy this tutoria!
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