People have been decorating themselves with various drilled-through cubes and pieces of wood since times immemorial. Although they were far away from “contemporary” beads, it was the vanguard of subsequent production of glass, wooden and other types of beads. Currently, in addition to these basic ones, we also have lightweight plastic beads, pearl imitations, glass pearls or beads from precious stones and minerals available. We can use them to create not only jewellery, such as bracelets, earrings or necklaces, but various decorations or even whole pictures are still trendy. Combination with various wires, threading materials or soutache cords gives rise to fancy jewellery pieces that you can make in the comfort of your own home. You can find inspiration on special landing pages for Everything about making jewellery from minerals, baby accessories, Mala jewellery or layered bracelets. So let’s start creating so you can have a beadily nice day!
Beads? That’s love for a lifetime. They offer infinite possibilities, combinations, colours. Original jewellery for a ball, to go downtown, for parties as well as weddings. It all depends on your imagination and that’s what I enjoy about it the most.
Basic information and frequently asked questions
What are the basic types of beads?
Seed beads are the best known ones, they’re very tiny
and they’re most often used for bead weaving. Then there are diverse variants
of glass, faceted, wooden or silicone beads. Beautiful jewellery can be made
from glass pearls or from their lightweight variant - plastic pearl imitations.
Plastic beads are made in a wide array of types and they’re also used for
making, for example, Christmas decorations. Natural beads from precious stones
and minerals or luxurious faceted crystals by the Czech manufacturer Preciosa®
Components are very popular. Don’t forget that jewellery needs to be properly
taken care of so that it stays like new for as long as possible, we’ll talk
about it in the following questions.
I have the beads, what goes with them?
Take a look at the section of jewellery components
where you’ll find a generous amount of metal pendants, beads, connectors as
well as eyepins and headpins, jump rings and other necessities. Thanks to these
findings, you can make an original piece of jewellery exactly according to your
wishes - to simplify the search, you can use the filter on the left, where you
can easily choose a particular design or colour. In addition to jewellery
findings, we also offer original silver-plated and gold-plated components made
of sterling silver 925 or components by Amoracast, which you definitely
shouldn’t overlook!
If I want to string beads, what do I need to take into consideration when choosing beads and threading material?
First, you need to choose what you’re going to create
and whether the threading material should be elastic or not. For bracelets,
elastic bead cord is the most popular threading material, various nylon cords
are used for sewing and beading strings and wires are then used for stringing.
When you choose a suitable type of material, then you need to focus on the hole
width of the beads and findings that you’ll be using for crafting. Chosen
threading material should be of a smaller size. Therefore, if the bead’s hole
width is 0.8 mm, you can choose an elastic bead cord with the maximum width of
0.8 mm, however, we recommend (especially with beads from natural materials)
counting in a possible deviation and rather choosing a thinner material. When
it comes to bead weaving, in a similar way, it’s also necessary to select a
suitable needle and match the threading material to it (so that it can pass
through the eye of a needle and then through the bead as well).
What’s looping?
Looping is a very popular and often used jewellery
making technique. With the help of looping pliers, you can bend and end eyepins
and headpins, jump rings and other findings made of wire. You can then easily
place pendants on your jewellery, or you can make the pendants yourself.
I want to take up bead weaving or soutache jewellery making, how do I do it?
If you don’t know how to deal with something, we’ll gladly advise,
for example, on our Facebook page.
I like jewellery made from minerals, how do I do it?
We have a whole landing page about making jewellery
from minerals, you’ll find it here! You can also take a look at landing pages
about making boho jewellery, Mala jewellery or layered bracelets. And we didn’t
forget the little ones either, you can find everything about making baby
accessories (including nursing beads) here.
How to take care of jewellery?
Jewellery also needs to be taken care of so that it
doesn’t lose its shine and can always be your decoration! Don´t forget to use products from the category of cleaning solutions and
jewellery polishes and take proper care for your jewellery.
How to wrap a piece of jewellery if I want to give it as a gift?
We offer a lot of gift boxes especially designed for
jewellery as well as various gift bags, or you can grab some scissors, glue
and, let’s say, kraft paper and make a box according to your own ideas!
It’s still us, we just changed from Korálky.cz to Manumi. Ale nemusíte se bát, pořád u nás najdete všechny vaše oblíbené produkty, inspiraci a servis v kvalitě, na kterou jste zvyklí ;)
We want to bring you relevant information, creative inspiration and convenient shopping on our e-shop. To do this, we need to store your cookies. What information and how we store it read here.Reject cookiesAllow cookies