Jewellery Making

Earrings made on beading hoops with rocaille seed beads and glass beads. The long pendants are made from rocaille seed beads threaded onto beading wire which are squeezed in place with a crimp bead.

Earrings with rocaille seed beads

1

Put beads on the earring.

Earrings with rocaille seed beads

2

Close the earring and squeeze with flat nose pliers.

Earrings with rocaille seed beads

3

Put the wire around the beads on the earring. Double the wire over and thread both ends through the eye of the needle.

Earrings with rocaille seed beads

4

Start the bead caddy spinner. Collect 25 beads on the needle.

Earrings with rocaille seed beads

5

Thread the beads onto the wire

Earrings with rocaille seed beads

6

Attach a bead tip and a crimp bead on the wires.

Earrings with rocaille seed beads

7

Put the wire in the middle of the earring. Slide on the beads, bead tip and crimp bead all the way up to the earring. Squeeze the crimp bead with flat nose pliers.

Earrings with rocaille seed beads

8

Cut off the loop of the bead tip.

Earrings with rocaille seed beads

9

Make more strings on each side of the center in different colors. For each string reduce the number of beads by 2.


10

Attach the French ear wire to the earring.

Earrings with rocaille seed beads

11

Put a glass bead on a ball head pin. Put it through the hole of the earring. Twist the wire around itself.

Earrings with rocaille seed beads