Bonsai from beads

In order to independently make bonsai from beads, you will need:

• Beads or beads of different color and size


• thin wire (0.3 mm)


• floristic tape or thread for winding


• stem for barrel


• a container for fastening the tree (basket, pot, etc.)


• gypsum or alabaster


• colorless glue (for example, "Moment")


• materials for decorating "soil" (sand, colored glass, decorative stones, seashells, etc.)

Bonsai made from beads is made from separate twigs. So first you need to make branches. Cut the wire into many pieces. The length of the piece can be from 25 to 45 cm - depending on how much spreading tree you want to get in the end. Beads for twigs can choose a variety of colors. If you want to make a cherry blossom, take a white and gently pink beads. A beautiful autumn tree will come out of scarlet and orange beads. If you want your bonsai bead to be green - use a few shades of beads, then the finished tree will beautifully shimmer. Of the larger beads, you can make fruits. Very original trees look from decorative stones or sequins.



You can make twigs for bonsai from beads in two ways. If you make branches first way, then at the end of the wire it looks as if thicka bunch of leaves from beads. You need to dial 8-9 beads per piece of wire, move them to the middle and twist in two turns. Get the loop. Then the same number of beads is typed on each end of the wire and two new loops are twisted at one end, and three - on the other. The loop should be twisted as close as possible to each other. Then twist between the ends of the wire for five turns - the twig is ready. Varying the number of loops, you can change the splendor of the twig.



The second way making of sprigs for bonsai from beadssuitable for making branches with individual leaves. Bead on one loop is needed less, only 5 pieces, and it is twisted not in the middle of the wire, but at a distance of 5-7 cm from the end. After 1 cm, another loop is twisted, and so - almost to the end of the wire (do not forget about indenting everything in the same 5-7 cm). The number of loops must be odd. When all the loops are ready, the wire bends at the central loop, and its ends twist together - a twig with leaves on both sides is obtained.



How many such twigs are needed? It's a lot of if you want to make a bonsai of beads pretty lush. One really sprawling tree can take up to 100 branches. Once the twigs are ready, begin to weave them into bundles. When making branches in the second way,just collect a bunch of 10-12 branches. If you made twigs in the first way, it's better to weave them in stages: small bundles are made from 2-5 branches, then 2-4 bundles are weaved, and from them more branches are made.



Finished spreading branches of bonsai from beads are dragged along to the "trunk" - rigid rod. If you do not have a rod, you can use, for example, a pencil instead. The location of the branches depends only on your imagination. To disguise the attachment of branches, The trunk is wrapped in floral tape. This is a non-woven syntheticmaterial, something similar to slightly corrugated paper. Buy floristic tape can be in a flower shop or a store for needlework. Instead of a floral tape for winding, you can use threads (silk, lavsan or kapron), but this is a more laborious method. If you decide to make a birch, you can take an ordinary sticking plaster and draw stripes on it with a black felt-tip pen.



The finished tree is strengthened in a container, "planting" in a diluted gypsum, alabaster orplasticine. When the "ground" is frozen, you can decorate it with sand, glass, decorative stones, etc. To large elements of the decor tightened, you can put them on transparent glue. If you made a tree with fruits from beads, you can glue a few Padanians under the tree. The bead tree with your own hands is ready!



Bonsai from beads - a great gift or decor element. Make a tree of beads with your own hands is not difficult!



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