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Learning How To Bead
I suppose there are lots of people who would look at this article's title, "Learning How to Bead," and write it off as silly. After all, there's not much more to the aspects of beading than there is to stringing snacks to put 'round the Xmas Tree, right? That, and a free beading project to work on, and you're all set. How much more is there to state? What else is there to talk about?
The truth, however, is that there is a lot more to learning how to bead than simply stringing popcorn, and this article will have a closer look at what else you need to know.
Learning how to bead involved learning in four basic areas. They may appear innocuous enough at first, but upon closer examination, the inescapable conclusion is that there's much more to learning how to bead than first meets the eye.
The four basic "disciplines" you must master to really know how to bead are as follows:
Mechanics
Patterning
Color Selection
Medium Selection/Mixing
We'll read through the particulars of these one at a time as a means of putting you on the path to learning how to bead.
The first step in your "learn how to bead" education is mechanics. If you don't have the mechanics down, then the rest is irrelevant. Thankfully, from a mechanics viewpoint, it really is about as easy as stringing popcorn. If you can do that, then you've already gotten this aspect of learning how to bead down, but even here, there is some subtlety. Did you know, for example, that when stringing pearls, you need to tie a knot on each side of the stone to prevent potential damage caused by the stones rubbing against one another? Or that there are times when you only want to tie a loose knot as a "bead brake" on the end of the line you're not working?
So even where the basic mechanics are concerned, there's a lot more to learning the way to bead than you might first think. Undoubtedly, however, this is the easiest of the four disciplines to learn.
The next discipline you'll want to wrap your brain around in learning how to bead is the idea of patterning. Complete books can (and have) been published on this topic, and once you really get into it and start studying it, you'll quickly realize that of all the disciplines, this one is the most intricate and involved. Certainly the one you'll devote the most time on when learning how to bead.
Color selection is one part art and the other part science. Art students learn about complimentary and contrasting colors as a first course, and thus are a leg up in this department, but there are plenty of assets both online and off which will guide you through this field on your quest to learn how to bead. Don't skimp here. Proper color selection can make or break your designs!
Finally, the last major discipline to master in learning how to bead is medium selection and the correct mixing of mediums. This is often a practical, common sense discipline (ie., don't mix cheap plastic with your semi-precious stones!) but even here there is some subtlety to be found.
Learning how to bead isn't rocket science, and finding a free beading project to practice with is very simple. Anyone can do it, and with practice, do it nicely. Just bear in mind that there's a bit more to it than stringing popcorn!
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