BASICS OF BEAD STRINGING AND ATTACHING CLASPS

Learn the smart ways to make bracelets and necklaces

look good, feel good, and function well.

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In this video tutorial, I am going to cover a lot of material about stringing beads and making necklaces and bracelets.

I will go into depth about:

• Choosing stringing materials, and the pros and cons of each type
• Choosing clasps, and the pros and cons of different clasps
• All about the different jewelry findings and how you use them
• Architectural considerations and how to build these into your pieces

On our bead stringing journey, I will teach you several different bead stringing techniques. In particular, you will learn

• How better designers use cable wires and crimp
• How designers use needle and thread to string beads
• How best to make stretchy bracelets
• How to make adjustable slip knots, coiled wire loops, and silk wraps
• How to finish off the ends of thicker cords or ropes, so that you can attach a clsp
• How to construct such projects as eyeglass leashes, mask chains, lariats, multi-strand pieces, and twist multi-strand pieces.

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This guidebook is a must-have for anyone serious about making money selling jewelry. I focus on straightforward, workable strategies for integrating business practices with the creative design process. These strategies make balancing your creative self with your productive self easier and more fluid.

Based both on the creation and development of my own jewelry design business, as well as teaching countless students over the past 35+ years about business and craft, I address what should be some of your key concerns and uncertainties. I help you plan your road map.

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• Getting Started: Naming business, identifying resources, protecting intellectual property
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• Product Development: identifying target market, specifying product attributes, developing jewelry line, production, distribution, pricing, launching
• Marketing, Promoting, Branding: competitor analysis, developing message, establishing emotional connections to your products, social media marketing
• Selling: linking product to buyer among many venues, such as store, department store, online, trunk show, home show, trade show, sales reps and showrooms, catalogs, TV shopping, galleries, advertising, cold calling, making the pitch
• Resiliency: building business, professional and psychological resiliency
• Professional Responsibilities: preparing artist statement, portfolio, look book, resume, biographical sketch, profile, FAQ, self-care

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So You Want To Be A Jewelry Designer reinterprets how to apply techniques and modify art theories from the Jewelry Designer’s perspective. To go beyond craft, the jewelry designer needs to become literate in this discipline called Jewelry Design. Literacy means understanding how to answer the question: Why do some pieces of jewelry draw your attention, and others do not? How to develop the authentic, creative self, someone who is fluent, flexible and original. How to gain the necessary design skills and be able to apply them, whether the situation is familiar or not.

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Easy. Simple. No tools. Anyone Can Do!

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