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Tutorial 5: Herringbone weave

By Eni Oken - www.enioken.com

This pretty and simpe weave (ashing) can easiy

be done over amost any kind of wrapped bead,

forming a "diamond" shape. Notice how the front

is different than the back, caused by the reguar

ashing. This technique is not my invention, it is

based on french beaded fower techniques and aso

in basketry.

Step 1: Create a simpe wrapped bead using a

medium gauge wire (for this exampe, 20

gauge wire was used with a 3/4 inch bead).

Make the wrap onger than you woud normay

and try to make both sides identica. It heps to

count how many times you have coied around

the eye. For this exampe, each side was coied

9 times.

Step 2: Attach a ength of thinner wire to the

base of the top eye by coiing twice. This

exampe used 2.5 feet of 26 gauge wire, but

you can use other gauges with good resuts.

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Step 3: Trim the wire tail at the top and take the

onger ength of wire to the bottom eye and oop

once. Its important to aways oop over the coils,

to form the herringbone weave.

Step 4: Take the wire to the top once more

and wrap it over the base of the eye again.

This wil form ONE compete frame around the

bead. Right now, the frame is rounded, but

soon it wil acquire its typical "diamond" shape.

Step 5: Take the wire down and up again

(steps 3 and 4), forming another frame around

the bead. This procedure wil be repeated as

many times as needed to form the diamond

shape.

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Step 6: After repeating the frame for about 3 or 4

times, the diamond shape and the herringbone

pattern starts to show.

Step 7: When you can no onger wrap, secure

the wire at the top by coiing twice around the

base of the eye. Trim very cosey. This

exampe shows the wire wrapped around the

bead 7 times.

Notice how the wire is smoothy aid on the

sides of the bead. This is done by taking care

with the pacement of the framing wire.

Aternative: if you eiminate the bottom eye, by

just foding the wire instead of rounding it, you

can make a pendant

Enjoy this tutoria!

Eni Oken tutorial - herringbone.pdf

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