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Cones and Multi-Strand Jewelry
By Alice Korach
Cones provide decorative concealment for multiple ends on either necklaces or bracelets. You can string a multi-strand necklace or bracelet that you will gather into cones on either thin flexible beading wire or cord.

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Flat Peyote Stitch – Even Count Plus Making a Tube Bead
By Alice Korach
Peyote stitch, called gourd stitch by members of the Native American Church, produces a woven fabric of inter linked beads in which every other bead sits down half a row below the bead.

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Reinforced Square Stitch
By Alice Korach
Square stitch looks like loom weaving. The beads are arranged in straight vertical and horizontal rows. For this reason, you can work any chart with squarely aligned grid spaces, using either square stitch or loom weaving.

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Bead Knotting With an Awl
By Alice Korach
Learn bead knotting with an awl Complete instructions with step-by-step photos

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Bead Tips
By Alice Korach
A beading tutorial on how to use bead tips. Complete instructions with step-by-step photos

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Split Rings
By Alice Korach
A beading tutorial on how to use split rings Complete instructions with step-by-step photos

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Beaders’ Knots
By Alice Korach
A beading tutorial on how to tie knots used by beaders. Complete instructions with step-by-step photos

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Making Head Pins
By Alice Korach
Tutorial on Making Head Pins. Complete instructions with step-by-step photos

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Crimping
By Alice Korach
Learn all about crimps, crimping techniques and beading wires. Complete instructions with step-by-step photos

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Making Loops
By Alice Korach
Learn the basic technique of making a wrapped wire loop. Complete instructions with step-by-step photos.

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Opening and closing loops and rings
By Alice Korach
Learn how to open and close loops and rings. Complete instructions with step-by-step photos.

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The Wrapped Loop
By Alice Korach
Learn the basic technique of making a wrapped wire loop. Complete instructions with step-by-step photo

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Right-angle weave with one needle
By Alice Korach
Single-needle right-angle weave was developed and popularized in the United States by David Chatt in the 1980s and ’90s. A stitch that produces an almost identical visual effect has long been practiced using two needles in a crossing pattern.

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Flat Peyote Stitch – Odd Count
By Alice Korach
You work odd-count flat peyote stitch just like even-count flat peyote except for two key differences. First, you pick up an odd number of beads for rows 1 and 2. You begin with a row 1 edge bead and alternate row 2 and row 1 beads across the bottom or top edge of the chart, ending with a row 1 bead.

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Crocheted Rope
By Alice Korach
Crocheted ropes can be as thick or thin as you wish. They can combine different sizes and shapes of beads, and they can be continuous or can incorporate a clasp. Once you master the start, the rest is extremely easy. Worst or best of all, making them can quickly become addictive.

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Brick Stitch
By Alice Korach
Brick stitch looks like peyote stitch worked sideways. In other words, the starting and ending edges are straight but the sides are jagged. However, unlike peyote stitch where you sew the new beads to the previous beads.

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Enlarging Pearl Holes
By Alice Korach
Pearls are irresistibly beautiful, and in most cases their holes are adequate for strung jewelry. I first encountered the need to enlarge pearl holes when I began stringing knotted necklaces that joined the clasp with French wire or with nothing, the fine-jewelry approach

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Ndebele Herringbone Stitch
By Alice Korach
Virginia Blakelock analyzed this lovely, drapery stitch from a piece of African beadwork and taught it to American beaders. Because of the curving thread path and the fact that beads are added in pairs, the stitch usually has a soft, flexible tension.

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Circular or Tubular Right-Angle Weave
By Alice Korach
Begin circular or tubular right-angle weave just as you would begin flat right-angle weave by making a strip the desired number of stitches long. If the beadwork is intended to fit snugly over an object, stop when the strip is one bead’s width shorter than the object it is intended to encircle.

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Tubular Herringbone and Simple Increases
By Alice Korach
The easiest way to start tubular herringbone is with a ladder of the beads you will use for the herringbone. The ladder must have an even number of stitches. You can work it as shown in “Brick Stitch” in Beading Basics. Or use the shortcut method shown here.

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Tubular Peyote Stitch - Even Count
By Alice Korach
The first way I learned to do peyote stitch was in a tube around upholstery cord. I had a lot of fun playing with patterns as I went round and round my cord. My first two necklaces (shown here) used odd-count

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Basic Brick Stitch
By Sharon Bateman
Begin a piece of brick stitch with a row of ladder stitch for the foundation. When I work a ladder, I sew through each stitch twice to stabilize and strengthen it. Consider how many more times you may have to sew through these beads and choose a thread thickness that will leave enough room in the holes.

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Twisted Tubular Herringbone
By Alice Korach
Everyone who learns tubular herringbone loves it. The rhythm is peaceful and the stitch is easy once you get the hang of the step up at the end of the round. Twisted tubular herringbone is at least as much fun and even easier because you don’t have to worry about remembering to step up at the end of the round.

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Peyote Stitch Increasing and Decreasing
By Alice Korach
Depending on the effect you wish to achieve, you can increase and decrease in peyote stitch either rapidly or gradually. A rapid increase or decrease gets the job done quickly.

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Opening and Closing Chainmail Loops
By Maryilyn Gardiner
“The goal is to have the two ends lined up exactly with no space between them.”

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Basic Loom Weaving
by Sharon Bateman
There are many different looms available to day, some will come with instructions some will not. The basic principle for looms is that you string threads onto it to form the foundation for your beadwork.

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