Hot Jewelry How-Tos
How To: Macrame Double Wave Bracelet - Tutorial
How to make a Macrame Double Wave Bracelet with beads.
How To: Tie four basic knots in jewelry design
To tie the overhand knot, make a loop and pass one end of the string through the loop and tighten by pulling both ends. To tie a double overhand knot, make a loop and pass one end of the string through the loop twice before pulling both ends to tighten the knot. To tie a surgeon's knot, take the left string and bring it over and around the right string twice. Then take the right string over and around the left string and pull both ends to tighten, leaving a complete loop of string below the k...
How To: DIY Easy Square Knot Flower Bracelet
To make this bracelet you only need to know how to make a square knot. This is a great bracelet for beginners in macrame.
How To: Striped Macrame Bracelet with Beads
How to Make a Diagonal Striped Macrame Bracelet with Beads. This is easy to make and looks good, great bracelet for beginners.
How To: Macrame a cool choker necklace
In order to make a macramv© choker necklace, you will need the following: string, scissors, and beads.
How To: Fill a handheld butane torch with fuel
Jill Erickson of Art Jewelry Magazine demonstrates how to fill a handheld butane torch with fuel. You can purchase butane fuel at a grocery store or at a hardware store. First, uncap the butane fuel can and hold your butane torch upside down. There will be a small opening valve where you will vertically insert the top of the butane fuel can nozzle. Make sure the components are aligned straight up and down. Then, use direct downward pressure to get the fuel into the torch. The fuel can will hi...
How To: Make a Macrame Bracelet with Stone
How to make a Macrame Bracelet (Cabochon) with Wrapped Stone. Part 1:
How To: Make a Easy Macrame Cross with Beads
How to make a easy macrame cross with beads. This Cross Design is an easy Macrame project suitable for children and beginners.
How To: Angel Wings & Macrame Shell Bracelet Tutorial
In this tutorial I will show you how to make a Macrame shell bracelet with pearls, it also has a very stunning look, kind of reminds me of Angel wings. Perfect for wedding, party and daily wear accessory.
How To: Attach a Jewelry Clasp
One important part of jewelery making involves properly attaching clasps. This how-to video jewelry making tutorial demonstrates the proper way to attach them. Begin by threading the crimp bead and the clasp onto the bead wire. Using chain nose pliers feed the thread around and loop it back around through the crimp bead. Use the pliers to hold the crimp bead tight. Crimp the bead down securing the wire and clasp.
How To: Tie a Square Knot with Eight Strings
Square knot variations with eight strings. This is easy to make and looks good. You only need to know a square knot. With this macrame pattern you can make: belt, band, bracelet, strap for guitar or bag
How To: Make a Friendship Bracelet with Hearts
Learn another way how to make a friendship bracelet with hearts. Great gift for Valentine's Day! You need: 8 strands of embroidery floss, 40 inches long..
How To: Easy Infinity Square Knot Yin Yang Friendship Bracelet Tutorial
To make this bracelet you will only need to know how to make a square knot. This is a good bracelet for beginners and it looks very interesting.
How To: Make a Macrame Bracelet with Flower Petals
How to make a very nice macrame bracelet with flower petals and beads in pink. This bracelet looks lovely and it's not so hard to make.
DIY: Macrame Double Spiral Bracelet
How to make a Macrame Double Spiral Bracelet with Button Clasp and Leather cord. Knots that are used in this tutorial are Double Spiral Knot and Square Knot. This is a great bracelet for beginners!
How To: DIY Beaded Wrap Bracelet with Square Knot and Button Clasp
This will show you an easy and quick way to make a Wrap Bracelet using Square Knot, Beads and Button Clasp. This bracelet wraps around your wrist two times. Make your own Chan Luu Style wrap bracelet with Square Knot! Great bracelet for beginners!
How To: Make a Chevron Friendship Bracelet
How to make a macrame arrow design Friendship bracelet, called Chevron (V-Pattern). This is a great Friendship bracelet for beginners! It's very simple and cute. In this bracelet have a rainbow colors and this craft is fun to do at birthday parties, camp, sleepovers etc..
How To: Join metal jewelry pieces together without using solder
You can fuse metal together without having to solder it. By using a butane torch, you can heat your pieces of metal until they are almost but not quite melted. Once they reach this flashpoint, you can easily fuse the pieces together.
How To: Perfect the wire spiral for jewelry making
If you want to make the perfect spirals, join Lisa Niven Kelly from beaducation for this quick demo on perfecting the wire spiral. Learn how to make open and closed loop spirals, and the proper tools to use for mastering this technique. Watch as Lisa shows you how to make one of her favorite shapes that she not only incorporates into many of her designs but also showcases all over Beaducation.com! Learn how to make the perfect wire spiral for jewelry.
How To: Laser engrave your own fingernail
What happens when you use a laser cutter on your fingernails at low power? Bad smell.
How To: Make Wavy Macrame Bracelets
This Tutorial shows how to make an easy wavy macrame bracelets. For the most interesting appearance you can also add beads. With this style you can also make a belt, just take bigger cords and make it longer :)
How To: Easy Wave Bracelet with Beads - Tutorial
How to Easily Make a Cool Wave Bracelet with Beads and Sliding clasp.
How To: Make a Triangle Friendship Bracelet
How to make a Macrame bracelet with Triangles. This Triangle Friendship Bracelet made by using Cavandoli technique. Cavandoli macramé is a ancient art of knotting by hand, used to form geometric patterns and free-form patterns like weaving.
How To: Make Japanese Knot
How to make Japanese knot with four strings in two colors. This is a good project for beginners.
How To: Tie Reversed Half Hitches
Reversed Half Hitches, Larks Head Sennits or chains (can be made in several different ways) They can be used as bracelets, belts, or just for decoration. Very easy to make, can be used as a Survival bracelet or Friendship bracelet. Good for beginners :)
How To: Make a Macrame Heart / DIY
How to make a macrame Heart, step by step, tutorial. You can use this Heart as a keyring, necklace, pendant or other decorations..
How To: Make a Candy Stripe Friendship Bracelet
in this video is shown 9 samples of Diagonal Striped Bracelet and I show another way how to do it. This is the basic friendship bracelet - very quick to make. You need to know how to do Forward Knots and REMEMBER: TIE DOUBLE KNOTS! Forward knot is super easy! You can make this bracelet in your national flag colors. Good luck (:
How To: Braid a Simple Friendship Bracelet with Six Strands
Six strand braid - in this way you can also braid hair. Simple friendship bracelet - Plait with SIX threads. It is also possible to make shoe laces with this braid.
How To: Macrame Leaves for a Friendship Bracelet (Nice on Both Sides)
This video tutorial shows how to make leaves on macrame Friendship bracelet (this style also known as peacock's tail). You can use this bracelet from both sides. Fits to men and women. Use Mouline threads.
How To: Make a Braided Macrame Friendship Bracelet That Looks Nice on Both Sides
You could do this bracelet in all sorts of fun color combinations, or all in one color and it would be nice either way. These bracelets would make great easy gifts for friends, as well or This would make for a great friendship bracelet. You can use this bracelet from both sides. Fits to men and women. Use Mouline threads.
How To: Clean Your Crystals?
Hello! Today I would like to share a few words about cleaning your crystals. It could be a whole collection or the first shiny object you have ever bought. Here are some hints,...
How To: Make a portable lap-sized beading studio for beading on the go
You know those long drives home in the car after you've spent a weekend at a cousin's house, or back from visiting Las Vegas? With more than a few hours at your disposal, what do you do to fill up the time? If you're an avid crafter and enjoy making jewelry, that you can turn those usually idle hours into productive crafting time by making this portable beading studio.
How To: Make a delicate beaded hair vine for weddings
Poison Ivy isn't the only woman who can get away with wearing vines in her hair. Rather than picking up a bunch of poison ivy vines and sticking them in your hair (which would be bad news for all), we recommend crafting the delicate beaded hair vine presented in this tutorial.
How To: Make a beaded wire mandala for meditation or jewelry
A wire mandala is basically a wire halo of sorts, meant as a geometric configuration which contains the image of a deity. For some, a wire mandala can be used for meditation and stress relief, while for others it is a beautiful religious pendant that can be attached to earring clasps and chains to make necklaces.
How To: Finish off your jewelry with crimps & crimp covers
Jewelry-making Techniques demonstrates how to finish your jewelry with crimps and covers. To use crimps and covers to finish your jewelry you will need 2mm crimps, 3mm crimp covers, crimping pliers, a clasp and beading wire. First, attach the clasp by stringing the crimp bead and one part of the clasp onto the wire. Take the end of the wire and string it back through the crimp bead to make a loop. Adjust the crimp bead up to the clasp and use the crimping pliers to crimp the bead. Repeat on t...
How To: Make an even count peyote beaded amulet bag or purse
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a beaded, even count peyote, amulet bag or purse. The materials required include: red seed beads, 18 inches of crystal fireline, sewing needle, gold seed beads and magnetic clasps. This video provides step-by-step text instructions that allows the viewer to follow along and easily pause the video to keep up to pace. This video will benefit those viewers who enjoy handmade accessories and are willing to learn how to make a bag or purse made out...
How To: Make a circle friendship bracelet
A little girl from Live Love Embroidery explains, in this video, how to make a circle woven friendship bracelet. The process involves seven strands of embroidery thread tied at the end with a simple half-hitch knot. The knot is fed through a small hole in the center of a circle of cardboard. The strings are then individually latched through seven of eight notches located at the end of the cardboard. After that, rotating in a circle pattern around the cardboard, the strings are exchanged aroun...
How To: Make fake jewels using silicone and clear resin
You don't have to spend a lot of money on jewelry, crystals and pendants. In this video from Tap Plastics, you'll learn how to use their brands of Platinum Silicone and Clear Lite Casting Resin to create artificial jewelry. It won't fool the pros on a close examination, but it can still be impressive-looking stuff at a fraction of the cost of real jewelry.
How To: Use a jump lock for jewelry-making
The end of the ugly split ring and soldering jump rings has arrived! Jumplocks "are easy-to-use jumprings that "LOCK" into place! This video jewelry-making tutorial demonstrates this new product and the technique used to "LOCK" them!
How To: Make metal clay paste and slip for jewelry
Art Jewelry Magazine associate editor Jill Erickson demonstrates how to make silver metal clay paste. Metal clay paste is great for repairs or for molding and sculpting pieces for jewelry. Learn how to make metal clay paste and slip by watching this video jewelry-making tutorial.