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Bead Types Guide (Overview) | Beads Jar UK

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Acrylic Beads Available in a whole range of vibrant colours, shapes and sizes, acrylic beads are an extremely light weight material perfect for any arts and craft designs. Buy our acrylic beads here. Alphabet Beads These beads vary in size and design. They can come in silver, gold, acrylic, glass and many other materials. They are perfect for putting names or pleasantries on a piece of jewellery. Buy alphabet beads here. Aurora Borealis Beads Aurora Borealis is a trade name used to describe ...

Wirework techniques: Creating squiggles | Beads Jar UK

22/01/2018 0

It’s fun and easy to incorporate decorative wire techniques within your jewellery designs! This step-by-step guide shows you how to create a simple ‘squiggle’ effect in craft wire which you can use in your bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Craft wire comes in a variety of colours so you can create something funky and original in the colour of your choice!For this tutorial you will need Craft wire (minimum of 0.6mm) We have used 0.9mmRound nose pliersSide cutter pliersRuler/measuring tapeStep 1 ...

Wire Gauge Conversion to mm and inches | Beads Jar UK

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Convert wire gauge to millimetres in this easy to understand table. Wire gauge sizes are generally used in the USA and this chart will explain the thickness of wire gauge, making it easy to determine what thickness the wire is in millimetres and inches. The general rule to remember is the higher the wire gauge number the thinner the wire and the lower the wire gauge number the thicker the wire.26 wire gauge or above is good for wire twisting and wire knitting in jewellery20-24 wire gauge is grea...

How to set a Swarovski Rivoli | Beads Jar Jewellery Guide

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Set a sparkling Swarovski Rivoli into one of our beautiful settings in seconds using tweezers and Fevi Kwik jewellery glue. This technique is so quick and produces stunning results. These settings can be added to chains to create pendants and Bracelets, or choose the stud setting to make a pair of earrings. We've used a 12mm Emerald Rivoli for this guide but you may use whichever size and Colour is preferable to you. See our full range of Swarovski Rivoli Crystals hereThings you will need for th...

Introduction to Beading for beginners