Beadwork for Beginners: Animals

For beginners weaving with beads can openunprecedented spaces for creativity. What you will not see in the masters of this remarkable art: beaded trees, beaded toys, jewelry, decorative accessories for the home, and much, much more.

Flat and bulk animals from beads

Crafts from beads beginners are recommendedto make according to already prepared schemes - this will help not to make mistakes in counting beads, the sequence of techniques. Such schemes of weaving from beads can be intended for so-called 2D, i.e. flat, and 3D, i.e. volume, hand-made articles. Beadwork for beginners is recommended to learn from flat products.

One of the favorite beadwork schemes for beginnersare schemes of weaving toys-animals. Such funny and beautiful toys can decorate your house or please the children. There are schemes of weaving beads for beginners with different levels of training.

Weaving with beads of animals and a scheme for them for beginners

For example, you can weave a cute crocodile. To weave a 9x12 piece, you need 125 pieces of green beads, 150 yellow beads, 1 black, 2 bright (blue, red, etc.), fishing line. The required length of the line is calculated based on the size of the beads. For a large bead you will need 1.75 m of line 0.25-0.3 mm. For beads of medium size - 1.1 m of the line 0.2-0.25 mm.

Crocodile is performed in the technique of parallelweaving. To perform a parallel weaving on the line, beads of the first and second rows are strung at once. Then one end of the working thread is passed through all the beads of the second row towards the other end. After that, both ends of the line should be pulled properly "until it stops" so that all the beads are placed in the middle of the line.

Further weaving with beads is carried out on the same principle: on the fishing line all the beads of the row are threaded according to the weaving scheme, and then the beads are fixed with a counter-nest.

The full scheme of weaving with crocodile beads is presented below (Figure 1).

In a similar way, i.e. In the technique of parallel weaving, we can also weave other funny animals - the tortoise (Figure 2), the dog (Figure 3), the spider (Figure 4). If the product should keep the shape well (such as a spider and its "feet"), then weaving with beads is performed on the wire.

Figure 1. Weaving with beads for beginners: the "crocodile"	Figure 2. Weaving with beads for beginners: the "tortoise"
Figure 3. Weaving with beads for beginners: the "dog"	Figure 4. Weaving with beads for beginners: the "spider"