Features of color and the history of the appearance of baubles
Each person chooses the methods thathe likes the most. It is believed that the fashion for wearing baubles came to us from hippies, representatives of a special subculture who call themselves "flower children" and love various bright things and jewelry. Baubles were considered part of the image of any hippie, as well as a way of self-expression. This cute decoration is often woven as a gift for friends or relatives, but baubles can be bought. You can buy them in handicraft stores. If you are persistent, it is quite easy to learn how to weave products. It is noteworthy that both men and women can wear baubles, this is a unisex decoration. Quite often you can meet young people who wear paired baubles - the so-called "love baubles". Each bauble is unique in its own way due to its color or pattern. However, there are certain stereotypes regarding the color of this or that decoration. How to weave baubles? Red symbolizes love and passion, scarlet - aggressiveness, burgundy - cunning, pink - tenderness and naivety, orange - energy and sexuality. Yellow jewelry is associated with summer and madness, green - with youth and nature, and pale green - with melancholy and dashed hopes. A light blue bauble symbolizes friendship and harmony, blue - calmness, purple - dreams and wisdom, brown - earth, white - purity and innocence. Gray and black jewelry means sadness and loneliness. It happens that baubles are made of two colors that together have a certain meaning. How to weave baubles to show your feelings? For example, a red and white jewelry symbolizes love, white and green - love of nature, red and blue - pacifism. Yellow and red bauble speaks of crazy love, yellow and blue means the sun in the sky, yellow and green is considered a symbol of Jah - the god in Rastafarianism. Green and black decorations seem to signal "no to drugs", purple and black denote black magic, and white and brown are considered a symbol of Jah. There are also three-colored baubles: red-yellow-green means Rastafarianism, red-green-white - hypersexuality, yellow-blue-orange - the owner's passion for the East and esotericism. Green-yellow-blue decoration symbolizes the forest and nature, blue-yellow-white - "Golden City" - a song that is considered the third in the list of the hundred best songs of Russian rock in the twentieth century. Often on people's hands you can see a bauble of seven flowers - a kind of rainbow, which is a symbol of hippies, flowers, joy, love and friendship.
How to make brooms yourself
As already mentioned, baubles need to be braidedmanually from beads, different threads, leather or ribbons. However, the most creative people can even use different wires to make such jewelry. The most popular threads from which baubles are made are floss, iris, poppy and lily. Today, we can conditionally distinguish two main types of weaving baubles - oblique, which is also called mosaic, and direct. By the way, not everyone knows that jewelry made of floss threads, braided in a thick braid, are also called friendship bracelets. Quite often they are given to friends. You need to weave jewelry while sitting on a comfortable chair or in a comfortable armchair in a well-lit room. If you have never woven such bracelets in your life, it's time to learn how. Before weaving baubles, you will need to prepare everything that may be needed in the process of creating jewelry:
- an English safety pin with the help of which the threads are threaded;
- scissors. You can use special or usual manicure;
- colorful threads. It can be thread floss or even simple ordinary yarn. It should be remembered that the number of threads in this case must necessarily be even. It is best to take eight strings of different colors, since if you take six or four strings, the bracelet will be too thin and will not look good on the hand.
The length of the threads should be about a meter, however ifIf the person you are going to weave a bauble for has a wide wrist, then the length of the threads should be a little more than a meter, because it would be a shame if the decoration turns out to be small. If during the weaving process you find that the threads used are not enough, it’s not a problem. They can always be carefully knitted. By the way, experts in the field of weaving baubles claim that the process of creating a new decoration will be more comfortable if you attach the threads to a sofa or pillow.
How to weave braces correctly
If you are weaving for the first time and don’t know, thisto do, then you should not immediately practice complex drawings and patterns from knots. For the first time, the simplest method of creating jewelry will do. Before you start weaving jewelry, the threads should be laid out in the order in which the pattern will go. During the next stage, it is worth securing the yarn so that it does not suddenly twist during weaving. To do this, you should form a knot, stepping back a couple of centimeters from the end of the thread. The resulting knot should be attached to a sofa or pillow with a safety pin (that's what it's for!), and some even think of attaching the knot to their clothes. After this, you should lay out the multi-colored threads on a flat surface in the order they should look in the finished bracelet. Before weaving the baubles further, you need to take the thread that is on the right edge and use it to tie two or three knots on another thread, which is closest to the first thread. After this, you need to continue tying knots - the same thread ties a knot on the next thread. Work until you reach the end. As a result, you get the first row of the bauble, which is a strip of knots located diagonally. During this weaving, the threads change places. Then start weaving the second row. Start weaving with the same thread with which you started weaving the first row, and so on until the end. Do this until you reach the desired length of the decoration. After finishing weaving, the bracelet is removed from the pin, and its ends are braided into a pigtail. This is necessary so that the tails do not come out in different directions. This method of weaving a bauble is the simplest. Those who decided to make jewelry with their own hands and succeeded in this matter, can begin to experiment with baubles, make different patterns. For example, you can start weaving from right to left and be sure to change the direction in the center of the bracelet. It should be noted that in this case, the threads that will meet in the center of the future decoration will need to be beautifully decorated and finished to create a nice pattern.
Material for baubles
You can weave baubles not only from floss threadsor yarn, but also from satin ribbons. The decorations turn out very beautiful, and they are easy and interesting to make. Unlike threads, it is very easy to work with ribbons. For those who have already repeatedly woven baubles, it will take no more than half an hour to create a bracelet from satin ribbons. Despite the simplicity, the result of weaving will definitely please you. To weave such a decoration, you need a couple of satin ribbons about a meter long, no less. If the length is not enough, it is better not to weave, otherwise the product will look ugly. Ribbons can be of different colors, the main thing is that they go well together. For example, you can take a red and white ribbon, yellow and blue, orange and yellow. It is good if you have a white satin ribbon, since white is easily combined with others. After that, you can start weaving the bauble. To do this, bend back about 10-15 centimeters at the ends of both ribbons, after which the ribbons are placed on top of each other. Then bend the upper loop as if you want to tie a knot. How to weave the baubles further? Make a full circle, and then return the ribbon back, but remember that this time the loop needs to be made small. Then pass a large loop through this small loop, which was obtained in the previous stage. Now you will need to carefully pull the short tail of the small loop, as a result you will get a knot. Do not tighten it strongly. Then form a loop again and pull the remaining small one through it. Pull the long end of one loop and fix it through the other loop. This is necessary so that the pattern turns out beautiful. After completing this stage, you will already be able to see a part of the future pattern in the form of a small square. If the edges of this geometric figure are not very even, then you should carefully tighten the desired loops. All previous actions should be continued until you reach the desired length of the bauble. This is one of the simplest options for weaving with satin ribbons. Later, you can weave ribbons in more complex variations, creating various designs and patterns.
Baubles from the beads
Now we need to figure out how to weave baublesfrom beads. They turn out to be unusually beautiful. For example, you can make an interesting bracelet from beads and pins, which no one else will have. To do this, you need to take pins, beads of different colors and shapes, elastic cord and glue. The beads need to be put on the pin so that there is a little space left at the top of the needle. This is necessary so that the pin can be easily closed. The beads need to be strung until you understand that you have already collected the very number of pins that will encircle your wrist or the wrist of the person for whom you are creating the jewelry. After this, you need to thread the elastic cord through the holes through the pins at the top and bottom. The location of the pins can be alternated, so the bracelet will be even more interesting and beautiful. At the end, you need to tie the bracelet and treat the knots with glue. Those who have not yet woven bracelets from beads can be advised to make a bauble for beginners. It needs to be woven in two threads, so before starting to weave, the ends of the threads must be waxed, that is, soaked in wax. At the beginning of the work, three beads are strung on a thread or fishing line, they need to be shifted to the middle. After that, each of the threads needs to be passed through the outer beads. As a result, the right thread is passed through the right bead, and the left, accordingly, through the left. After this, you should get a figure similar to an inverted triangle. Then two beads need to be added to the thread on each side, after which the threads are again passed through the beads in the same way so that the right one goes through the outer bead on the left, and the left one on the right. Three beads of any color must be added to each side, and the thread is again strung through the outer beads. Now you need to make a pull. For the next stage, two beads are added to both threads. This time the bundle goes through the last beads of opposite sides. After this, the threads should pass towards each other through the bead. This is the last stage of the first weaving of the bauble. Then the entire sequence of actions is repeated until the decoration is ready.
Variations on the theme of weaving
You can also try braidingtriangle bauble. It also has another name - "half-diamond" weaving. This decoration is woven using one thread. First, ten beads or seed beads are carefully put on it. After that, the thread is passed through the rightmost of them. Six more beads are collected. The thread is passed through the eighth bead (from the beginning of the set), and six new beads are strung on it again. The thread is passed through the bead of the last link, as a result, a triangle is obtained. Then the bauble is woven in the same way, as a result of which new triangles are formed. The finished decoration is sewn into a ring, but you can also use another method by pulling a satin ribbon through the holes and using it as a tie. You can try to make a chess bauble. This is a fairly simple decoration even for beginners, it is quite easy to weave. First, you need to string four beads on the thread, then three more, and then two. After this, the thread needs to be passed through the fifth bead, then through the third and first. As a result, the thread turns, and the decoration is woven further. As a result, you get a square made in the form of a mosaic. After you finish weaving the first square, you can proceed to the second, coming out of the initial one. And so on, until the bauble reaches the desired length. After this, it is worth going over the edges with bead threads again. Of course, baubles, no matter what they are made of, are a very beautiful decoration that anyone will be happy to wear. This is a very expensive gift, since it is made with your own hands, with soul and love. But before weaving baubles, ask if your friends will wear them.
