How to choose beads
It's easy to find the jewelry beads used in beading, your local craft store or a specialty bead store, apart from these offline resource, the online shopping of beads, supplies or findings is also a good choose. I have discussed how to purchase discount wholesale beads on my last jewlery news, today I will continue to teach you how to choose beads for beading.
As jewelry supplies are an essential part of jewelry making, while pursuing buy as high quality supplies as you can afford, for poor quality or inferior ones would ruin your finished jewelry into none at once. The key to choosing jewelry supplies is to do an online search first to find what you need, once you've spotted what you want, at the price you want, you can buy at home.
(1) Materials
Different materials make for different projects. Plastic beads are great for kids' crafts and some home decor projects. Glass, precious and gemstone beads, along with crystals, are excellent for fine jewelry work, Tibetan jewelry work well to show the feeling of ancient rhymes and exotic ambience.
(2) Shapes
Bead weaving should, ideally, be done with jewelry beads all the same shape (and size) for the sake of uniformity. For more decorative stringing, balancing squares with rounds and bicones gives enough contrast that each bead shape has a chance to shine. Drops are just some of the many top-drilled shapes that will take you beyond basic strands. Stone chips are good for an organic feel, mixed in with seed beads to stretch them out a bit.
(3) Color
If you do a lot of beaded jewelry with your wholesale beads, ordering color charts from the major manufacturers is a good idea. For other work, a color wheel that shows not only the basic primary and secondary colors, but also various shades and saturations will help you pair beads with other materials.
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Teen jewelry business - 14 yr old girl?
ok so im 14 years old and two of my friends and i are going to start a jewlery business where we are going to sell beach inspired jewlery like surfer type jewlery hemp bracelets and that kind of stuff soo i need help what are some things we need to do or should do before we start making the jewelry (besides the legal stuff i know about that) how should i let people know we sell jewlery how often should we get together to make the jewlery? what supplies should we buy to start of with and how much of it? and any other help tips ideas website pages anything that will help us 14 yr old teens with startiing a jewlery business thanks alot and lastly what do you think of our name "BFF's till the ocean ends"
Answer:
Take a look at etsy.com You will see many who sell their own jewelry. You will need enough inventory and styles to give your shoppers the desire to look at your wares. Probably at least 20 to 30 pieces.
You might be able to sell this at the beach (check for permits required) and at consignment shops that sell jewelry. Websites like etsy.com are also a possibility.
Develop some business cards and pass out to your family and friends so you get some word of mouth started.
Catchy business name. You need to file a DBA to use this for bank accounts, etc.
Good luck!
