{"id":1085,"date":"2008-09-19T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp1020926.wp039.webpack.hosteurope.de\/e\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2015-07-26T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T14:18:45","slug":"bead-intertwists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Bead Intertwists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creadoo.com\/Content13498\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/creadoo Perlenschlingen.jpg\" alt=\"creadoo Perlenschlingen-Bead Intertwists\" width=\"250\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"links\"><a href=\"#li080919\"><strong>Links of entry<\/strong><\/a><br \/><a href=\"#tu080919\"><strong>English tutorial<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p>During my &#8216;beading time&#8217; I wrote a (German) tutorial for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creadoo.com\/Content13498\">bead intertwists<\/a> as on the photo.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"tu080919\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Here is the English translation:<br \/>\n<em><strong>Material:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nfor the bracelet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>selection of beads (here: various seed beads)<\/li>\n<li>colour matching thread<\/li>\n<li>needle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>additional items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>pins<\/li>\n<li>styrofoam or cork board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>What to do:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"unikatissima Bead Intertwists - Material\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creadoo.com\/images\/Themen\/Perlenhobby\/1088628076Perl01.jpg\" title=\"unikatissima Bead Intertwists - Material\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><br \/>\nFirst make a selection of beads and place them at your disposal.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tip:<\/strong><\/em> Uniform colouring connects visually; different forms, sizes and transparency makes it more vibrant.<\/p>\n<p>In this example I used eleven different sorts of blue seed beads, some transparent, some with silver lining and some opaque.<br \/>\nMore variety in sizes brings more vitality. The border between vitality and disquietness is to your liking.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"unikatissima Bead Intertwists - step 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creadoo.com\/images\/Themen\/Perlenhobby\/1088628076Perl02.jpg\" title=\"unikatissima Bead Intertwists - step 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" \/><br \/>\nThread beads and make a frame of approximately the right size.<\/p>\n<p>Connect the bead strings from time to time to the borders of the frame.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"unikatissima Bead Intertwists - step 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creadoo.com\/images\/Themen\/Perlenhobby\/1088628076Perl03.jpg\" title=\"unikatissima Bead Intertwists - step 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><br \/>\nWeave more bead strings into the frame, connect them from time to time to other strings.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tip:<\/strong><\/em> On the photo the inner bead strings are sometimes multi coloured.<br \/>\nDuring the work I found out, that this isn&#8217;t necessary and that one coloured strings mostly look better.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"unikatissima Bead Intertwists - step 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creadoo.com\/images\/Themen\/Perlenhobby\/1088628076Perl04.jpg\" title=\"unikatissima Bead Intertwists - step 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" \/><br \/>\nContinue to weave in bead strings: long strings, short strings, lengthwise, crosswise, over and under.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tip:<\/strong><\/em> When the &#8216;fabric&#8217; gets tighter it&#8217;s easier to work in the bead strings in sections.<\/p>\n<p>On the photo I append about half a dozen white beads to a white string.<\/p>\n<p>Pay attention to make a &#8216;fabric&#8217; of consistent \tdenseness.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"unikatissima Bead Intertwists - step 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creadoo.com\/images\/Themen\/Perlenhobby\/1088628076Perl05.jpg\" title=\"unikatissima Bead Intertwists - step 4\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><br \/>\nWhen everything is finished attach any closure, e.g. a bead loop and a colour matching button.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t make any closure, because the item on the photo wasn&#8217;t meant to be a bracelet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the bead strings are carefully woven the &#8216;fabric&#8217; keeps quite good its form.<\/li>\n<li>I used simple cotton thread for the example and wove in the ends with some glue. I could do it this way, because the item was intended to be glued onto a sturdy surface and there would be no strains to the threads.<\/li>\n<li>At the beginning it can be difficult to keep the form. The styrofoam or cork board can be of great help when pinning the item to the board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"li080919\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creadoo.com\/Content13498\">Bead Intertwists (Perlenschlingen) (German)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links of entryEnglish tutorial During my &#8216;beading time&#8217; I wrote a (German) tutorial for bead intertwists as on the photo. &nbsp; Here is the English translation: Material: for the bracelet: selection of beads (here: various seed beads) colour matching thread needle additional items: pins styrofoam or cork board &nbsp; What to do: First make a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=1085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bead Intertwists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,27,38],"tags":[107,448,463,467,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9768,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/9768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}