How to weave wisteria from beads, step-by-step photos and a description of the wickerwork of Japanese and Chinese wisteria in loop technique, tips on decorating crafts

February 21, 2018 handmadebase

It must be difficult to meet a person whoI have never seen wisteria. Perhaps the name will seem unfamiliar to someone, but the magnificent waterfalls of inflorescences, descending several tens of centimeters, caused delight and remained in the memory, undoubtedly. Wisteria got its name from the Greek word "glycos", which translates as sweetness, thanks to the enchanting aroma. The amazing beauty grows in different parts of the world. It is a woody liana of the legume family. Clusters of flowers of individual species can reach 1.5 m in length. The liana is very popular in Japan, where it even competes with sakura. It is a symbol of tenderness, beauty and fragility. An amazing fact from botany - wisteria, living in Japan, twines around tree trunks clockwise, and growing in China and Korea, curls counterclockwise. In the USA, in addition to climbing shrub species, there are also shrubby species. The oldest wisteria is 111 years old, it occupies an area of almost half a hectare of land and weighs about 250 tons. This miracle of nature is located in the American city of Sierra Madre. During the flowering period, it is enveloped in a waterfall of more than a million lavender-colored bunches. There is a very touching legend about wisteria. In one village, there lived a sweet and gentle beauty. She was so friendly and kind that all the people loved her. Every morning, the girl combed her amazingly beautiful long hair and braided it. Jealous goddesses envied the beautiful curls and sent a dragon to destroy the beauty with her wonderful braids. He kidnapped her and went to the mountains. No matter how much the girl begged for mercy, the dragon, taught by the evil goddesses, swallowed her. However, the evil did not go unpunished. The dragon's body suddenly became wooden, and when he wanted to breathe out flames, amazingly beautiful clusters of flowers, reminiscent of a girl's braids, appeared from his mouth instead of fire. Like most vines, wisteria is an invasive plant and is not planted next to others. A great option would be a wall of a house or a fence that it will braid. Such a beautiful creation of nature could not help but inspire needlewomen, and amazing handicrafts made with their own hands from beads are born. It is this material, with its variety of colors and shades, that helps to reflect all the splendor of the waterfalls of inflorescences. In this article, we will weave wisteria from beads. Translated from Arabic, "buser" or "busra" means "fake pearl". And indeed, some types of beads look like pearls, while the number of shapes, sizes and colors is much wider than that of ordinary pearls. We will create wisterias mainly using the loop weaving technique. This method is good because even uncalibrated beads will do. And if for mosaic or parallel weaving, beads selected by size are very important - otherwise the product will simply be skewed, any will do for the loop version. Wisteria flowers come in a variety of shades from snow-white to pink and dark purple. When you weave your craft, choose the color that you like best.

Lush wisteria of beads

Materials and tools:

Beads 10/0 (30 g white transparent, light pink, purple, 25 g light and dark green);
Thin wire approximately 0.2 - 0.3 mm 4 coils;
8 pieces of thick wire 2 - 3 mm, 25 cm long for branches and trunk;
Medium-thick wire for attaching brushes and leaves;
Tools for working with wire;
Shallow capacity for the stand (you can use a stand from the pot for room colors of a suitable diameter);
Alabaster;
PVA glue;
Paint (brown acrylic);
Decorative elements (beads, pebbles, etc.);
White blue gel candle (lake).

We will start the work on creating wisteria withcreating bunches. We weave them using the loop technique, it is one of the simplest, so even beginners in beading can handle it. The bunch blanks will be woven on pieces of thin wire about 90 cm long. Before you start weaving, you need to prepare the workplace. The flat surface should be well lit. It is advisable to cover it with a light rough material so that the beads are clearly visible, and they do not roll down the smooth surface, even if they fall. For convenience, sort the beads by color into small containers. And start weaving. First, we weave the tassels. String 5 purple beads onto a piece of wire. Move them to the middle of the piece and twist the wire into a loop. Make 3 turns. Now we will weave on each end of the wire separately. We will make the next loop from six purple beads. To do this, we retreat from the first loop about 1.5 cm and make the second loop. Again, three turns. Now the distance between the loops is about 0.7 cm. It should be approximately equal. In the third loop there will be 8 beads, in the fourth - 9.We will weave the next loops with a transitionflowers. The sequence of the set is as follows: 5th loop (3 purple beads, 4 pink and 3 more purple), 6th loop (1 purple, 10 pink, 1 purple). We weave the 7th loop only from pink beads - 14 pieces. The 8th (5 pink, 5 white and 5 more pink), 9th bead we weave from 16 white beads.On the other end of the wire we make exactly the same loops. Now we fold our workpiece in half and begin to twist, as shown in the photo.Now we take and align the loops so that they look down. The more lush you want the wisteria brushes to be, the more of these blanks you need. In this master class, there are 60 of them.The second stage of work is weaving leaves.We will do them using the parallel weaving technique. We will need 25 cm long pieces of wire. We string 1 light green bead on it, move it to the middle and cross the ends of the wire in it. That is, we take one wire tail and pass it through the bead from the opposite side. In the next row, we will already have 2 light green beads. We cross the wire ends in them. The third row will consist of two light green and one dark green, located in the middle. We string the fourth row like this: 1 light green bead, 2 dark green, 1 light green. We continue weaving according to this principle until there are 6 dark green beads. We weave the next rows, decreasing by 1 dark green bead.You will need about 30 leaves.Let's start assembling the wisteria. Take the thickest wire and screw the brush blanks in bunches of 10 - 15 pieces using pieces of medium-thick wire. Make sure that the brushes are perpendicular to the branches down, and the leaves, on the contrary, are on top (see photo). Attach all the branches together to one piece.thick wire. At its lower free end, twist a fairly large loop. This is necessary for stability and good fastening of the wisteria on the stand. Dilute the alabaster with water and PVA glue to the consistency of thick sour cream. Place our wisteria in the stand with the loop down and fill it with the mixture. Using a brush, spread a little mixture over the trunk. Make the layer thicker at the very base. In order not to stain the bead brushes, you can wrap them in foil.To decorate our craft we wove frompurple and light green beads small flower, using the French arc technique. The photo clearly shows the number of beads in each arc. But you can choose completely different decorative elements for your creation. We attached our flower to still wet alabaster.Now we make supports for our wisteria, so thatit does not tilt and we leave it until it dries completely. After everything has hardened, we dilute a little more alabaster with glue and water and cover the branches. Again, we leave it until it dries completely. Now it's time for paint. We cover the trunk and branches with it. To decorate the stand, we will have a lake and a water lily. We have already secured the flower, and for the lake, you need to melt a gel candle in a water bath and quickly pour it onto the stand. Coat the rest of the surface of the stand with glue and attach a variety of decorative details to your taste: pebbles, beads, seed beads, etc.When everything is dry, our wisteria is ready.

Next we'll weave the Chinese wisteria of a gentle blue hue.

Materials and tools:

100 g of felling is light green;
100 grams of beads of transparent blue and transparent white colors;
3 coils of fine wire golden and silver;
1 m average wire thickness (of aluminum or copper) 1.5 mm;
Thick wire for a barrel diameter of 2.5 cm;
Threads for winding (colors brown or green);
Elements for decoration (moss, pebbles, beads);
Acrylic paint (color brown and white);
Brush (hard);
Alabaster or gypsum;
Food film (polyethylene bag is suitable);
Capacity for podstavochki;
Tools for working with wire;
PVA glue;
Clear varnish in an aerosol container.

We weave blanks from light green chopped woodloop method. You can string the entire chopping block on the spool without tearing off the wire at once. Move the beads (chopping blocks) from the edge of the wire by 12 - 15 cm and start weaving loops. The number of chopping blocks in one loop is 12 pcs. The distance between the loops is about 1 cm, there should be an odd number of loops for one blank. In this master class - 9. Move the string with the chopping block from the last loop by 12 -15 cm and cut the wire. Now we begin to twist our loop blank from the central loop in the same way as in the previous master class. After the last two loops, twist the ends of the wire by another 4 cm.The number of loops in one piece can bemore or less, the main thing is that it is odd. In this way we use all the green beads (chopped). The next step will be weaving tassels. Mix white and blue beads in one container. Both types should have the same effect, i.e. rainbow, matte or transparent. In the same way, we collect a mixture of two colors on a wire in a spool without tearing. We will weave similar to the green blanks. The distance between the loops is also about 1 cm. In the same way, we retreat from the beginning of the wire about 12 cm and begin to weave as follows: 9 loops of 15 beads, 3 loops of 10, retreat 2 cm and weave 1 loop of 7 beads, then again retreat 2 cm and then 3 loops of 10, then 9 loops of 15 beads. Again, we move the beads along the string by 12 - 15 cm and cut the wire. The central one is a loop of 7 beads. Twist the blank in the same way as the green one. Use all the beads.Now we take 1.5 mm wire pieces 25 cm long. We tie our blanks with threads in the order shown in the photo. For one branch you will need from 3 to 5 blanks.Now we need a very thick wire 2.5 mm. 35 cm pieces. We attach our blanks to them. We will get about 17 pairs (see photo).They need to be positioned so that the blue brushesare at the bottom and the green ones are at the top. Twist the wire ends in a spiral. This will give the trunk a characteristic and beautiful relief. You can arrange the branches as in the photo, or come up with your own option.We twist the end of the wire into a ring forstability. Dilute the alabaster with water and glue to the consistency of thick sour cream. Line our container with film, put wisteria there (on one edge) and fill it with the mixture. The height is approximately 2 - 3 cm. Our craft will need support for some time to maintain the desired position. When everything dries, take the workpiece out of the container. Dilute a little alabaster with water and glue (like liquid sour cream) and coat the trunk and branches. At the bottom of the trunk, make a small thickening with an additional layer of alabaster. Wait until it dries completely. Now you need to paint the branches, trunk and stand brown. When the paint dries, take white paint and paint the trunk with a hard, semi-dry brush using horizontal movements. All that remains is to coat the stand with glue and decorate it with pebbles, beads, beads and other elements.

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Lush wisteria of beads

Next we'll weave the Chinese wisteria of a gentle blue hue.

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