Precious stones, with an overflow of color and glosswhich can not be compared to anything, since ancient times they have been used to decorate clothes and everyday life. The beauty of natural stones prompted people to create artificial analogs that are able to compare with them in terms of brilliance, brightness and transparency. One of such wonderful inventions was glass.
Superior craftsmanship in the manufacture of glass andproducts from it reached the Venetian artisans. They carefully kept the secrets of their craftsmanship, because the works of glass craftsmen were very expensive and valued at least as high. It is in the Venetian Republic on the island of Murano (which is now famous for its glass) began to make glass beads in the form in which we see it now. Multicolored glass grains struck with their brilliance, brightness, but they were much lighter than natural stones and even, so it was easier to use them for embroidering and weaving decorations. Expanded and the range of application beads. From it began to weave even paintings with amazing patterns and ornaments, from which were created ladies' handbags, a top for shoes, decorative objects of palace interiors.
An ancient art of weaving from beads, thanksits unusual, a variety of forms and species, as well as amazing beauty, is popular until now. Along with the traditional techniques that masters pass from generation to generation, contemporary artists create new forms, expanding the possibilities of using this amazing material. Weaving of a flower from beads is a very popular kind of needlework, which even children are happy to do. How to make flowers from beads? There are simple enough tricks that weaving a flower from beads turn into an uncomplicated and fascinating process.
Flower of beads for beginners
One of the simple ways of beading isthe so-called monastic weaving of the beaded cloth. It allows you to create dense leaves of the flower, which are connected to each other in a cup, the stamens are inserted inside, and the stem of the flower is wrapped in a green ribbon or thread. For work, you will need two beads of beads, small beads for the stamens (yellow, white or black), a wire thin as a string, a dark green ribbon or a thick thread.
1. Flower petal.On a fairly long piece of wire string 1 bead. One end of the wire is threaded into the bead again, so that it is firmly entrenched on the wire. At one end of the wire, we now string 2 beads, and the other end, forming a loop, pass through these two beads from the opposite side so that he pins the beads with a loop and fastens the row. All the subsequent series do also, adding to each new series one piece each. When there are nine beads in the row, the number of them begins to gradually decrease, making each subsequent row 1 bead smaller. We finish the work when there are 3 beads in the row. This creates a diamond-shaped petal of the future flower. If you combine different shades of beads, say, in the center to put a darker, and at the edges - more light, then the work will be more interesting. It is necessary to weave 5 petals.
2. Now shave the narrow petals.They are weaving too, but the number of beads in the ranks will be less. The midpoint of the rhombus should be a row of 5 beads. To the petal turned out to be the same size as the wide one, we plait twice the rows, consisting of 3 and 5 beads. Narrow petals should also be 5 pieces.
3. After all the petals are ready, you can collect the flower. First we connect the narrow petals, then wide. The corollas of the flower are inserted into each other.
4.Stamens are made from one small bead and one bead. Through the bead we pass the wire, and then on both its ends we put on the bead. The ends of the wire are twisted. We make 6 stamens and connect them together.
5. Now you can insert a middle into the flower cup. All the ends of the wire are joined together, twisted and wrapped with a ribbon or thick thread.
This is only one of the techniques that demonstrateweaving of a flower from beads. Having mastered this simple technique, you can try and master others. There are many of them. Feeling the material, its capabilities and features, you can independently invent new ways that allow the weaving of a flower from beads to turn into real art.
