Hi this Megan with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you
How to do Captured Bead Chain Maille
I'm doing one that uses
ten millimeter eighteen gauge
opened jump rings, just a regular silver plate
and I'm using eight millimeter round beads
I did also try this with a
six millimeter round bead
and a eight millimeter jump ring that one was a nineteen gauge
as far as getting the beads to fit in there
just from my limited experimentation that I did I found that
if you had
two or three millimeters of
size difference between your bead and the jump ring
that seemed to work pretty well
the faceted beads only need a couple of millimeters
I'm going to show you how to do it with these
Swarovski elements gemstone faux pearls and since they don't have facets it's
a little tighter
it will still work with the two millimeter difference but it's
a little bit less fluid
the end result
you also want to be careful that you don't do too much of the difference
between
the size of your bead and jump ring because your beads could just fall out
so it's one of those
tricky chain maille things where
you might just need to experiment a little bit but
in general if you have two or three millimeters difference
it should work
so this is actually pretty quick and easy as far as chain maille goes
and it's pretty cool because the beads nothing goes through the beads so it's just
captured, its just held inside the rings
so to start
I opened up all of my big jump rings
I'm also using
two smaller jump rings for the beginning and the end
I did that in this one too
you could use one I just liked the way that
two looked with this
particular weave
I'm going to start by taking two smaller jump rings that aren't open
and placing them on one of the larger jump rings
close it up
it will save a lot of time if you open all of your jump rings first with this one
and then place another large jump ring in your smaller jump rings
that's going to be
the end there
put
two
jump rings into
that last pair here
of the jump rings you use now until the end will be the larger size, it's just all one size
for the main part of this
put another
ring in
now
take
your small jump rings at the end and try to hold onto those
and you have
two sets of two rings above them. The first set of rings
put one
to either side
then open up
that next set
so that you have
two going this way and two going this way
take your bead
place it in the middle
it can be tricky
close
those rings back around your bead so you'll have
one set hugging the bottom part of the bead and one set hugging the top part
of the bead
and take another ring
you're going to catch both
of the top rings in this one
and close it up
add
the second one
every layer goes on in sets of two. You always have two rings through two
rings
you always place one and place another one right beside it
so you'll do two
sets of two
before you do every bead, so you're going to take the last two you added, hold them
together
do another layer on top of that
again
you're going to add a
second ring right beside
the last one
and you're going to hold on
the piece you have
and open up your
jump rings
place the bead down
hold the jump rings up
and here
the top rings
might get stuck
inside the bottom two from before
just lift it out. You want these two to be outside
these ones from before so that they can open out at the bottom
hold that in place
go through both of those top rings with the new ring
close it up
you can always
place second ring right beside the first
Then
put your next ring
through those last two
and place another one right beside that one
when you have your
two groups of two rings
open them out, one
and then the second
place your bead in the middle
and close them back up over the bead
catch both rings with the new ring
I'll show you just one more time
it's really pretty simple once you get the hang of it
put your second ring
side by side with that first one
grab
both of the last two with a new ring
and then
add the next one right next to it
open them both up
add the bead
You have to lift a little sometimes
close up
and to end all you're gonna do is add two rings at the end just like at
the beginning or just one if you want for this one
It's going to be a smaller ring
I've got them
sitting open ready because
I knew I wanted to use them that way
you could use just one
I'm going to add a second one
and you can just add
your findings, your clasp
whatever you want to use to finish your piece
just right onto those jump rings there
and you can see that with the
the non faceted beads it's a little bit less fluid then with the faceted beads
because they're a little larger but it is still
pretty flexible
so it's still
definitely works with non-faceted