The Four Essential Aspects That You Should Get Better At To Really Learn How To Bead

I suppose there are more than a few individuals who would read this article's title, "Learning How to Bead," and write them back as absurd. After all, there isn't much more to the aspects of beading than there is to stringing snacks to put 'round the Christmas Tree, right? That, and a free beading project to work on, and you're ready. What more is there to state? What else can there be to discuss?

The reality, however, is that there is a lot more to learning how to bead than simply stringing popcorn, and this article will take a closer look at what else you'll want to learn.

Learning how to bead required learning in four primary areas. They might appear innocuous enough initially, but upon closer inspection, the inevitable conclusion is that there's a lot more to learning how to bead than first you would think.

The four essential "disciplines" you have to get good at to really know how to bead are as follows:

Mechanics

Patterning

Color Selection

Medium Selection/Mixing

We'll go through the particulars of these one-by-one as a way of putting you on the route to learning how to bead.

The initial step in your "learn how to bead" education is mechanics. If you don't have the mechanics down, then the rest does not matter. Thankfully, from a mechanics point of view, it really is about as simple as stringing popcorn. If it can be done, then you've already gotten this feature of knowing how to bead down, but even here, there is some seductively. Did you know, for instance, that when stringing pearls, you need to tie a knot on each side of the stone to prevent potential damage caused by the stones rubbing against each other? Or that there are times when you merely have to tie a loose knot as a "bead brake" at the end of the line you're not beading?

So even where the basic mechanics are involved, there's a lot more to learning the way to bead than you might first think. By far, however, this is the simplest of the four aspects to learn.

The next field you need to wrap your brain around in mastering how to bead is the idea of patterning. Complete books can (and have) been written on this subject, and once you really get into it and start learning it, you'll quickly realize that of all of the disciplines, this one is the most complex and involved. Certainly the one you'll devote the most time on when learning how to bead.

Color selection is one part art and one part science. Art students discover more about complimentary and different colors as a first course, and thus are a leg up in this section, but there are several assets both online and off which will guide you through this discipline on your quest to learn how to bead. Don't think of saving here. Proper color selection could make or break your patterns!

Lastly, the last major aspect to master in learning how to bead is medium selection and the correct mixing of mediums. This is often a practical, common sense area (ie., don't combine lower quality plastic material with your semi-precious stones!) but even here there is some subtlety to be found.

Mastering how to bead isn't too difficult, and getting a free beading project to practice with is very simple. Anyone can do it, and with practice, do it well. Just remember that there's much more to it than stringing popcorn!

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