How Do You Design Jewelry With Lampwork Beads?
Handmade lampwork beads are small, colorful and unique. They add variety to your jewelry making and art projects. These beads are treasured and passed from generation to generation. Lampworking is the craft of making glass beads by hand. Romans created this technique by using oil lamp to melt down glass and create decorated beads and sculptures. Today, modern lampworkers use a propane-oxygen torch as their heat source. Read on to learn more. Order your beads from a website or catalogue. The Eebeads.com and firemountaingems.com websites have good bead selections. Gather your materials together. Cut a 25-inch piece of softflex. String softflex through one crimp bead, loop through oval filigree clasp, and then back through the crimp bead. Snug the crimp bead up to the oval filigree clasp. Using your crimp tool, crush the crimp bead and trim the excess wire. Tuck the remaining into the next bead. String round, pony bead, round, heishi, lampwork bead, heishi, round, pony bead, round, heishi
