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Hi Stefany, In a perfect world, if you wanted to make a perfect or proficient necklace, and all the beads were perfect, and all of their perforations were uniform, stringing a necklace would not be such a chore—though it would demand appropriate skill. In the real world, beads are hand-made artifacts, and often differ one from another, even in the same group. One of my accomplishments is what I call "seating a bead"—by which I mean that for any particular bead and its placement, I choose a way of holding it in that place. I provide a foundation for it to sit upon. Many times, this foundation is nothing more than a knot, or series of knots or passes (in multiple-line fancy stringing, such as macramé and other techniques I use). But sometimes the basic strategy for a necklace will fail when an eccentric bead is included. This might be a bead with an unexpectedly large or small perforation, or with a conical or biconical tunnel, making the aperture(s) oversize. I have several strategies to deal with these problems. However, these are easiest to deal with when the beads are not already placed on a strand for knotting. So, rather than string all the beads in advance, and then unstring them when there's an unexpected problem (only to restring them again, and possibly again), I choose to string a bead when I am ready to place it. In the series of photos I posted above, where we see the necklace at partial construction (on a paper plate), I stopped there because I ran into a bead that had a tight perforation (in comparison to the rest). I had to enlarge the perforation before I could proceed—which is why I also took the photo then. Be well. I look forward to your visuals. Jamey All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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