Today we will talk with you, dear readers, about what is the basis for a bracelet, how to use it, and what types of subtypes of furniture necessary for making jewelry are.
Accessories for bracelets
Buying a ready-made jewelry in our time does not represent absolutely no difficulty. Fashionistas have access to expensive jewelry made of gold, silver, platinum, inlaid with precious and semiprecious stones, dusting, carving.
All kinds of costume jewelry are equally popular. Moreover, such jewelry is often handmade products created in a single copy. Most often, girls prefer to pamper themselves with a variety of bracelets. It can be jewelry made of metal, stones, beads, threads, leather, wood, combined materials.
But the best basis for the bracelet is metal. The body of jewelry is often made of aluminum or steel, sometimes it is copper, brass or silver. We will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of each of these materials in more detail, but for now we will discuss what types there are basis for bracelets, and also we will understand the auxiliary accessories necessary to create an exclusive handmade jewelry.
Types of Basics
The simplest and most affordable workpiece with which you can create your perfect bracelet is a chain with large links and a clasp. Surely readers will wonder why the rings on the base should be large. Everything is simple - so it will be easier to attach decorative elements to them - beads, stones, pendants. They are fixed to the base with the help of special accessories - pins, pins of rings and holders for pendants. If the basis for the bracelet is a chain, then you need to choose a reliable clasp to it. It can be carbines, a hook with an eyelet, a magnet or a lock.
No less common are bracelets, the basis of which is a thread, fishing line or elastic band. From these materials you can make not only a narrow jewelry in one row, but also a wide multi-layer bracelet. For this, a special thread separator is used, which fastens two, three rows of beads together and prevents them from overlapping one another.
Well, the last popular option is the metal base for the bracelet. These are curved plates of different widths with a connector in the back, with which the decoration is worn on the arm.
They are decorated in different ways. Most often, they are glued over with stones and rhinestones using epoxy resin. Also, the base can be covered with fabric, leather, embroidery from beads or threads. A separate subspecies of such blanks is bracelets with a platform on which several large decorative elements are attached (stone, clocks, cabochons).
What metal is better to make bracelets from?
The most favorite among needlewomen are aluminum bases for bracelets. This is because the finished product is not heavy, its size is very easy to adjust by bending the bracelet in accordance with the thickness of the wrist, and the material itself does not fade and does not change color over time.
Steel bases are strong and durable, look beautiful, but, having decorated such a workpiece with natural stones or metallized beads, you will end up with a very heavy product.
Copper and brass have a characteristic color, they are good for making vintage style bracelets. By the way, it is worth considering that some people may be allergic to these metals.
How to make a thick bracelet yourself?
It is not always possible to purchase a blank for a bracelet, so now we will tell our readers how to easily and quickly make a wide bracelet with our own hands.
To do this, you need to prepare a tube from toilet paper. The base should be with a sufficiently large diameter, if you are making jewelry for an adult, children, on the contrary, need to pick up a tube narrower.
First you need to make a workpiece by cutting off a piece of tubule of the desired width. Next, the base is cut across. In order to make it stronger and more rigid, the cardboard blank is pasted over with several layers of paper. When the base for the bracelet dries well, you can begin to finish.
We offer a variant of a bracelet made of threads (you can see a photo of it in the article). First, the base is tightly wrapped with yarn. To prevent the threads from moving out, grease the paper with glue. The bracelet is embroidered with similar yarn of a contrasting color.