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The Four Elementary Fields That You Need To Master To Really Learn How To Bead
I suppose there are more than a few people who would read this article's title, "Learning How to Bead," and write them back as absurd. After all, there's not much more to the mechanics of beading than there is to stringing popcorn to put 'round the Christmas Tree, right? That, and a free beading project to work on, and you're all set. What more is there to talk about? What else can there be to talk about?
The truth, however, is that there is a fair bit more to learning how to bead than just stringing popcorn, and this article will take a closer look at what else you should learn.
Learning how to bead required learning in four primary areas. They may appear innocuous enough at first glance, but upon closer inspection, the inescapable conclusion is that there's a lot more to learning how to bead than first you would think.
The four essential "disciplines" you must master to truly learn how to bead are as follows:
Mechanics
Patterning
Color Selection
Medium Selection/Mixing
We'll go through the particulars of these individually 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 is irrelevant. Fortunately, from a mechanics standpoint, it really is about as simple as stringing popcorn. If you can do that, then you've already gotten this feature of knowing how to bead down, but even here, there is some seductively. Did you know, for example, that when stringing pearls, you want to tie a knot on either side of the stone to prevent potential damage caused by the stones rubbing against each other? Or that there are times when you only 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 concerned, there's a lot more to learning how to bead than you might first think. By far, however, this is the easiest of the four aspects to get good at.
The next field you'll want to wrap your brain around in learning how to bead is the notion of patterning. Whole books can (and have) been written on this topic, and once you really get into it and start learning it, you'll quickly find that of all of the disciplines, this one is the most intricate and involved. Definitely the one you'll spend the most time on when learning how to bead.
Color selection is one part art and one part science. Art students learn about complimentary and different colors as a first course, therefore are a leg up in this section, but there are plenty of resources both online and off that will guide you through this discipline on your quest to learn how to bead. Don't sacrifice quality here. Proper color selection could make or break your patterns!
Lastly, the last major discipline to master in learning how to bead is medium selection and the proper mixing of mediums. This is mostly a practical, common sense area (ie., don't mix 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 rocket science, and finding a free beading project to practice with is dead easy. Anyone can do it, and with practice, do it well. Just keep in mind that there's much more to it than stringing popcorn!
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