Beading 101Hi folks,
I offered to help out with project educate and set up a big beading 101 for all the beading beginners out there, it might turn out to be an interesting article for intermediates too. Little did I know then, what a HUGE task I had ahead of me
.. I probably would have run and hide if I would have.
Or yelled: "Bead me up, Scotty"
I want to explain a lot of the basics, the tools, the must haves, the should haves, the bead types and all those curious abbreviations used with beading which seem to be a language of their own. I remember well how lost I was in the beginning when there came up words like melon beads, ICL, marea, monofilament... what the heck?
There where so many different threads and even more beads and all those strange aught sizing instead of mm (millimetre) (nowadays I need a table to convert aught to mm
)
This is my brain (and probably most every beader's brain) on beads:
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