Embroidery of beads by beads with different seams (photo and video)

June 9, 2017 handmadebase

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How to bead a picture
Types of seams
How to embroider sequins
Design of paintings in the style of a triptych
Video: Learning to embroider beads

- a painstaking, time-consuming and at the same time very exciting and interesting activity.
will become an original element of the interior oran exclusive gift for a loved one. As for the choice of the pattern, there are no restrictions, beads embroider still lifes, portraits, landscapes, patterns of children's or religious themes, etc.
You can create not only paintings or from beadspanels, but also to decorate clothing items with multi-colored beads and rhinestones, to decorate wallets, cosmetic bags, pillowcases, accessories (bracelets, pendants, keychains).

How to bead a picture

Before you start creating a picture forEmbroidery with beads, the master must decide on the choice of fabric and the design itself. This can be a clean cloth (without a pattern) or a canvas with a pattern of the arrangement of each bead in color.

Fabric with printed pattern for embroiderybeadsIf the needlewoman is more inclined to the first option, then in order not to get lost and not to confuse the rows during embroidery, experienced craftswomen recommend using a ruler. Purchased fabric with a ready-made pattern is more suitable
. This trick will help them do the job efficiently and quickly. On clean fabric, they embroider exclusively in rows, and on a canvas with a ready-made pattern, the stitches are laid in any random order.
Bead embroidery begins with the thinthe needle and thread are brought to the front side. The canvas cell is covered with fiber using a double stitch to secure the thread tightly. A small tip of the fiber is left on the canvas surface and then hidden under the first beads of the row. The secured thread is brought from the back side to the lower left corner of the cell and one bead is strung on it. The thread is passed through the upper right corner of the fabric and the fiber is brought to the back side again. The thread is stuck to the front side with one vertical stitch, a bead is put on and passed to the right corner of the cell, and the canvas is continued to be filled with beads in this way until the end of the row. You can watch a video of the bead embroidery process on our website.
One of the most important rules when creatingbeading pattern - do not change the direction of the beads in the rows, otherwise the pattern will be sloppy and uneven. There are no restrictions in bead embroidery, you can fill the future picture with rows of beads in the direction from right to left or left to right, bottom to top or top to bottom.

Beads are embroidered not only in rows, but also in a chaotic order. This is done so that the canvas embroidered with beads ultimately turns out to be full, voluminous with emphasized details and contours.
If, for example, the flowers are in random orderembroider with beads, then we begin to cover the petals with beads from the center of the bud to the edges. Then we begin to fill the core of the flower with beads, finish the work on embroidering the stem and leaves, and at the very end we work on the background of the drawing.
The first and last beads of the row are stitched with a threadtwice. This will prevent the entire pattern from falling apart or unraveling. The main pattern is usually stitched with one elastic thread, but if desired, the entire design can be stitched with a double loop.
Practical and correct during embroidery conditionallydivide the sections of fabric into squares and gradually fill the patterns with beads until the end. Do not overtighten the thread so that the fabric does not deform, but do not leave the stitch loose during stitching, otherwise the knot will sag. If beads of different sizes are used for the picture, you should start filling the pattern with small beads, and then attach larger beads to the fabric. If you start with larger beads, they will cover the place where the small beads are sewn, and empty, unsewn areas may appear on the fabric.

Another interesting way of embroidery is partialbead embroidery. A type of needlework that involves combining both beads and threads in a picture. This embroidery method gives the drawings volume and completeness.
In the process of work, first sections of the fabric are embroideredcross stitch, and then proceed to filling the canvas with beads. Cross stitch and bead embroidery allows you to highlight the accents of the drawing, emphasize the flowers, the contours of their petals, the core, distant objects or, conversely, the main bright details of the foreground.

Types of seams

Running stitchBefore bead embroidery, you should decide on the choice of stitches for a specific part of the design. When creating petals on flowers, it is best to give preference to
, and make the leaves with a patterned stitch. And the monastery or line stitch is ideal for decorating the backgrounds.
The principle of the running stitch is exactly the same,as in cross stitching. In the video, the needle is brought to the front side, one bead is put on the fiber and pierced through the fabric inside out. The thread is brought to the front again and the next bead is tightly sewn in the same way. You get a dotted line with the same distance between each bead.

Monastic seamMonastic seam by executionresembles the half-cross technique. The stitches are diagonally in one direction and are brought out to the upper corner of the cell. In this case, the back side should consist of short vertical stripes. For a new row, the thread from the back side is pulled to the main side and continues to embroider in the opposite direction. For convenience, you can turn the fabric over while working.
The "line stitch" is used tomake the embroidery more rigid. The first bead is strung on a thread, the fiber is pulled out to the inside, and its tail is pulled through one cell of the fabric. The second bead is put on the needle and secured in the adjacent empty cell. This method of embroidery allows the beads not to deviate on the fabric in different directions, but to be tightly arranged in one even row. The end of the thread is not cut off at the end of the work, but hidden under the secured beads.

Stem StitchTo obtain a "Stem Stitch" onthread with your own hands, pick up two beads at once, insert the needle into the hole on the back side. At the junction of two beads in the middle, make a short securing stitch, which is brought out through the hole of the second bead. String the third bead and again make a stitch with a needle between the second and last bead, continue embroidering in this way correctly until the end of the row. Flowers from beads with a stem stitch will turn out neat and beautiful if the needlewoman lays the beads next to each other with dense stitches, filling the open areas of the fabric with them.

Stem stitchFor embroidery with "Arched stitch" onseveral beads are put on the thread from the front side at once, but only the one located at the intersection of stitches (2,4,6, etc.) is attached to the fabric. This type of stitch allows you to attach the beads to the fabric more freely.

Arched stitchTo arrange beads on canvaswith the "Vprikrep" stitch, you need to string several beads (up to ten pieces) on a thread, and then sew them to the fabric with short stitches through each one or two subsequent beads. Bead embroidery in this way is done using two threads: one is used to draw lines, and the other is used to secure them to the fabric. "Vprikrep" is considered one of the easiest types of stitches. It is very convenient to use it to create a background, contour lines or distant objects in a picture.

Stitch "vprikrep"You can embroider with beads "vprikrep" in a free order or strictly parallel (horizontal or vertical) lines.

How to embroider sequins

Unusual additional decorative elements toSequins, glass beads (thin cylindrical tubes), multi-colored ribbons, and rhinestones can be used in bead embroidery. With the help of these decorations, beautiful and voluminous bead embroidery is obtained.
Copper is used to sew on sequins.wire or thin fishing line. Using straight stitches, the needle is threaded through the center of the sequin to the front side, and then the fiber is pulled out into the fabric through the outer edge of the sequin. Sequin embroidery requires that the color of the thread match the shade of the sequin itself, the same applies to rhinestone embroidery.
You can attach a sequin to the fabric if itplace one bead on the surface, and then pass the needle and thread through the center of the bead and bring the fiber to the back side. To create the next stitch, bring the fiber through a new cell of fabric to the front side and continue to string the sequin and beads on the thread. After finishing the embroidery, hide the fiber under the stitches at the end of the row.

Another sewing option is to put on a sequinwith your own hands on a needle, pass the thread with a double stitch to the center, and then bring out the sequin from the other side and to the front side. Close to the previous one, place the next sequin, and continue to bring out the sequins to the desired place of the fabric stitching. The result is sequin embroidery that resembles fish scales. To give beaded flowers or other elements of the picture additional convexity, several sequins are placed one on top of the other during work, and then sewn on using the studied method.

Design of paintings in the style of a triptych

Triptych is a scheme of embroidery, which includes threeOr more individual elements of the picture, united by one plot. At the same time, all parts of the drawing should have the same color scale and technique of embroidery with beads. Each part of the picture is embroidered separately from each other. Before embroidering, for convenience, the canvas or other fabric is cut into the required number of parts.

All the finished elements of the triptych drawing are connected inone or more frames and hang them on the wall. Three pictures in one large frame, separated by thin lines of partitions or canvas, hung at a distance of one centimeter from each other, look impressive. No less original can be the design of the whole picture if you make the central part of the image larger in size than the two side pictures.
The finished drawings look voluminous and rich,placed on the wall in a diagonal, horizontal or vertical order. For example, in the kitchen you can hang a triptych-style still life, flower or coffee compositions, and in the living room a painting with Egyptian or Japanese motifs, abstract patterns, landscapes will do.