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Hi. This is Andrea for Beadaholique.com.
In this video I'm going to show you how to make this waxed linen wrap bracelet.
Okay what you're going to need for this project is some waxed linen.
I used the brown color but it comes in brown
and off-white and a black color.
You're gonna need some seed beads or other beads with at least a
one and a half millimeter
large hole.
I have some 8/0 metal seed beads in the antique copper finish. I love these
metal seed beads. They're very cool.
You're gonna need a clasp and in this case we're gonna use a button.
This is a five-eighths of an inch steampunk sundail antique copper
button. Love that.
So for this video I'm just gonna make a bracelet that wraps around only once
but as you can see you can make it as long as you want so you can wrap around
multiple times.
Totally up to you
In generally the rule of thumb is you want the linen to be about
three times the length
that you want. So if you wanted a bracelet
you would need your outer
two threads
to be three times as long as you want your bracelet. So
I'm going to cut
two
pieces of this linen.
Thirty-six inches.
I'm adding
a little bit extra.
The reason I'm doing this because it's always
better to have
too much than
not enough.
So I'm going to cut a second one
at thirty six inches.
Now once again these are your outside strands. These are the strands that are going
to be doing the weaving on the outside so they need to be longer than inner
strands.
Now for the inner strands
those are not going to be doing any weaving they're just stationary.
So they only need to be as long as
you would normally used to make a strung bracelet.
So if you want a bracelet that's seven and a half inches long I would
recommend
cutting
your inner thread.
Once again I'm being generous here.
Let's say fourteen.
You're going to have extra but that's alright
and again this is for just a single wrap bracelet.
If you wanted this to wrap around multiple times
you'd double or triple or quadrupled this amount.
Here I have my two inner
strands or my course strands.
What I'm going to do
I'm going to place the two
outer strands on either
side of this.
The two long strands
are here and here and then the two inner shorter strands are right in the middle.
I'm going to move my clasp.
I'm going to scoot my
seed beads over.
What I'm going to do next
I'm going to tie
a knot
about four inches down.
Just a simple
over hand knot.
I love this wax linen and it does take a little bit of time to get used to
because it's
kind of sticky. It's literally waxed so it's so great to work with
especially for knotting.
So here we go. I've got my longer strands and my shorter strands in the center.
Now normally what I'd do
is I would
tape this to the
underside of the table.
Mind you it has to be a table
that is a work table if you don't want pull the finish off of
your good dining room table but that's why I do it on the underside.
For our purposes here
I'm going to do it on top of the table.
Si I have a
roll of duck tape.
Tear off a piece of this
and
I find that it sticks better when you spread
out your linen a little bit
because you'll have more of a surface to cling to.
You want to burnish that down because
the waxed linen is
a little bit slippery.
Now I'm ready to work.
Now the knotting technique I'm going to be using is called a
cobra stitch.
It's generally
used a lot for
macrame and different decorative purposes.
It works really well with this waxed linen.
It's really pretty knot.
So to begin I'm going to take my left hand
outer thread
and I'm going to make
an 'S'.
I'm going to take my right thread
over the bottom
loop of the 'S'
behind my two inner core threads
and up
through the upper
loop of the 'S'.
This is a little tricky for me because I'm used to doing this
not on top of the table.
So as you can see there's a knot being formed around
the two inner
core threads.
I'm just going to tighten both sides of the outer
threads until the knot
pulls up snugly
to that top.
Now you're going to reverse that.
So you're going to take your right hand
outer thread.
You're going to make a backwards 'S'.
You're going to take your left hand
outer threat and put it over
and through
the bottom loop of the 'S'
behind
the inner two core threads and up
and out
from behind there through that
upper loop of the 'S'.
You're going to pull that tight.
Now we're gonna add some beads.
I'm going to add a bead
to each of the outer
strands
and push it all the way up
to your first knot.
And once again
I'm going to do that cobra knot
and make an 'S'
go in front
behind
up through
I'm gonna knot.
You want to hold your inner core
threads study while you're doing this too.
I'm going to reverse that.
Reverse 'S'
in front
behind
up through
and pull tight.
Now it's time to add to my beads.
One to each outer thread.
And do you cobra knot again.
A little note here
you want to keep your two inner core threads parallel to each other. You don't
want them to cross or bunched up.
The reason I use two is because it gives a little bit of a wider
width to this bracelet.
You don't necessarily have to use two you can just use one
but I like the width that it gives.
You always wanna knot in the same order. So if I did the
'S' with my left side first I always want to be that in between adding
each bead.
Okay I'm going to continue with this for a little while until I have a full
bracelet and then I'm going to show you how to finish it off.
Okay as you can see we got most of the bracelet completed.
The actual length right now as about six-and-a-half inches long
and that's just about perfect for me because that's
right about
a little bit longer than
snug around my wrist and that's what I want because
the clasp is going to add that extra length needed to fit
nicely.
So I'm at the end of my bracelet.
I've got my two inner core strands.
What I'm going to do
I'm going to switch the direction here. So the two inner
core strands are gonna be on the outside
and vice versa.
Without removing the tape what I'm going to do is I'm just going to flip my bracelet
over
the best I can.
I'm going to take those two
core strands
and tie a
surgeons knot. We have a video for how to do that.
Basically it's just a simple
overhand knot. You're going to double it but the second time
you're gonna wrap
one more time around.
I'm going to pull this tight and the
beautiful thing about this waxed linen
is that the wax actually helps hold the knots in place.
So I'm going to flip it right side over again and I'm going to do the same thing
so I don't just have
a lump on one side of my bracelet.
I have my two
outer strands left over here and they're fairly long as you can see.
What I'm going to do
is I'm going to do
just a simple,
I guess it's kind of a half hitched knot.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to have my
right
hand strand. I'm going to pull this taut.
With the one on the left I'm gonna make
a four.
I'm going to
put up through the loop of that four
and pull tight.
I'm going to continue to to do this.
If you ever made friendship bracelets
as a kid
you're going to recognize this knot.
And while you're doing this it's going to twist and you can allow it to twist. What we're
gonna do eventually is make it so that
all of those knots instead of twisting around
are going to go the same
direction.
At this point
I'm going to stretch the knots out and make sure that the
knotted part is on
the same
side creating a little ridge here.
I'm going to test
the length of this. Now this is the loop
that you're going to be inserting your button through so it has to be large enough
to pass through this way. And that looks like
maybe if I just stretched my knots out a little bit more
it will work.
That looks like it'll work.
Just gonna make sure the knots are evenly spaced.
Now I'm going to
join the end
of my knotted section with
my previous knot here.
Just to kind of secure it
I'm going to other surgeons knot
with the two shorter lengths.
Then with the two longer lengths I'm going to do the same thing.
What I'm doing here is I'm just
trying to make it secure
by knotting it but also trying to make it even and not too
funky and lumpy.
I think I'm ready to trim.
Alright and there we have to loop end
of the bracelet. So now I can
remove the entire bracelet.
I just have to add my clasp which is a button
and we will be done.
Once again I'm going to separate the outer strands from the inner strands
but this time I'm going to use the inner strands.
I'm going to thread both of them through
the loop on the back of the button.
I'm going to fold it down like this
and use the two outer strands to tie a surgeons knot.
You can tie them
around to the other side as well if you'd like.
Now I'm gonna take
the two inner strands
and I'm going to tie other surgeons knot or two.
You'll kind of get a feel for how secure you think this is.
You might determine that you need to tie
one of the inner core threads to one of the outer threads and vice versa but
I think right now what I got I'm pretty happy with.
So I'm going to go ahead and
trim.
And there you have it folks.
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