Hand Knotting your Treasure

How to restring that broken necklace 

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This is a step by step guide to re-stringing your necklaces that may have broken or come un-strung. Pictures illustrate every step of the way and guide you through the process. 

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Why would you want to hand-knot a necklace or a bracelet ?

•     A hand-knotted bead string is more fluid than one on wire.
•     Some bead materials are soft and need knots to separate them.
•     Wire can cut into a soft material such as pearl or amber.
•     A beautifully hand-knotted necklace has a very rich look.

Can you hand-knot any bead or pearl on beading thread?

•  No.  Some bead holes are too large.
•  Some bead holes are too variable for the thread or cord.

What kind of thread should you use for hand-knotting?

•     Silk bead cord is twisted and uniform and tangles the least.  It is strong but least likely to     cut into a soft material like pearls.
•     Nylon bead cord is strong, but it can cut into soft materials.  It tangles more than silk             and  it frays more easily.  Because it frays, it is even more difficult to tease out of a bad         knot than silk.
•    Sewing thread is unsuitable and too easily broken.

Why buy silk bead cord with the wire already attached? 

• The commercially attached wire is much easier to pass through the beads and the clam shell bead tips.
•  Wire needles that you buy and attach to silk beading thread will have double thread that must pass through the bead.
•  Beading needles are thicker than the wires and even more troublesome when passing through the bead (if indeed they will).

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