​One of the fun toys we got really enjoyed back our childhood years are marbles. Did you know that those marbles may be accessories that adds beauty and prestige on jewelries? Yes, the glass beads are like gems, too. Stunning and outstanding revelation, indeed! 

The most interesting fact about this cuties are that they used to be things for boys. They resemble marbles, which boys played with during their kiddo days. They are small balls that they throw over the other with the objective of hitting that of the opponent’s and taking them out inside a box. The box is drawn over on dirt or sand. It is an outdoor and physical game, mostly played by young ones in Asia.

These one of a kind and artistic decorations are made out of glass; hence the derivation of their name. Although by referring back to their history, the first cited records of these beads were made out of clay. The Egyptians were the first to discover their beauty and thanks to them! We are continuing their brilliant legacy.

Now, let’s look a few of the different types of glass beads:

• Wound glass beads

This are ones exposed to high temperature in order to make them easily drawn out into a steel wire or mandrel coated in a clay slip. While they are hot, they are shaped and manipulated with other raw materials such as graphite. This type are the marbles and they are the ones used to design lamps.

• Drawn glass beads

Among the types of glass beads, this must be the oldest one. They were believed to be used since 2nd century CE. The process of making such is vast, but they all have something in common -- they are all pulled into a strand out of a gather of glass in order for them to bore a hole in the middle. The most common of this type is the seed bead, a small bead manufactured in large bulks.

• Molded beads

These are creatively crafted, molded beads. They are manufactured costing low labor expenses. These beads are manufactured using a complex tool because of its patterned and intricately formed designs. These type of beads are famous in 19th and early 20th century at Africa because of their tribal and ethnic variations and designs such as corals and lion’s teeth.

The Jade beads are produced using green gemstones with an abnormal state of hardness and with silvery feel. Despite the fact that it is known to customary purchasers for its unmistakable green shading, a few assortments can be found in different hues, for example, white, purple, tan, cocoa, and others.





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​Beads that are made of jade rocks are utilized basically for jewelry making, and for beautifying and ornamental purposes. You can discover them in neckbands and arm ornaments and in different embellishments, for example, brushes, women's packs and handbags. Numerous hundreds of years back, jade stones are utilized to embellish regal garments. The assumed recuperating properties of jade stones are likewise great reasons why it has gotten to be speaking to gatherers and jewelry planners.

The different shades of jade beads offer favorable position over different sorts of beads in complementing anything to which they are joined. The mineral attributes that they have permitted them to be molded and cut into any fancied size, shape or appearance. So in today's market, you can normally observe jade in shades and watches and clasps of totes. In jewelry making, these beads can appear as pendants, rings, and bosom sticks notwithstanding accessories, wrist trinkets, and anklets. The enormous jade rocks can be cut into figures and different masterpieces. With respects of the mending force of jade beads, their green sparkle transmits a sort of vitality that quiets a man's nerves and in addition recuperates particular infirmities that incorporate states of the liver, kidneys and the conceptive framework.

 Jade stones are regularly observed at a well being club or spa, set in an unwinding sauna or beside a shower. The stone is accepted to increase the value of a room, and the vitality that it radiates and got by the individual close-by is useful for the well being of that individual. You can get to know where to locate the best costs, the free sending, and the volume markdown by using the internet. While going to discount bead shops, they does not generally ensure the best costs, purchasing in bigger amounts will make generous reserve funds for you. You can hold the unit cost down in the event that you purchase as much as you need and as much as you can stand to pay. You can pool with companions to purchase discount on the off chance that you don't require a huge amount of beads for your venture.

Glass beads have been in existence over time and their functions and use has gradually changed. They were used as a form of currency in the olden days but now function as works of art and are being offered as gifts during weddings, birthdays or even at anniversaries. They can also be worn as jewelry when woven into magnificent neckpieces or hand bracelets that are fit to be worn by kings and queens.

Glass beads come in numerous shapes, sizes and types. The most common types of glass beads include:

• Czech glass beads
• Czech druk glass beads
• Czech fire-polished glass beads
• Lampwork beads
• Hand-blown glass beads
• Cat’s eye (Fiber-optic) beads
• Dichroic glass beads
• Russian artist glass beads
• Venetian glass beads
• Vintage glass beads
• Peacock  beads
• Caspia glass beads

​Due to their versatility in terms of size, shape and types, glass beads have  a wide variety of uses ranging from the most common which is jewelry making to home decoration, cross stitching and knitting.

Glass beads may be used to make jewelry that is, the whole piece may be made from glass beads or the center-piece may be the one that is made out of glass beads. This choice depends on the preference of the jewelry maker or the customer seeking to purchase the item.

Knitting and crotchet have been associated with just using yarn or thread to bring out designs when making items such as bags or table cloths. But, the art has now evolved and many people who used to use only yarn or thread have started incorporating beads into their designs to add that glitter and glam which gives their work that eye-catching look and feel (texture). The trick however, is to know how many glass beads you are going to use so that you can put the design together by first stringing them together.

Many people want their homes to be unique and different from those of others, and this is why some have began using beads as a form of decorating in order to stand out from the rest of the park. The most common decoration is wreaths which are easy to make simply by adding glass beads. Some are more creative and are using glass beads to decorate even lampshades which gives the room that flair making it to stand out.

Although glass beads may look so beautiful, some have been found to contain arsenic and lead which pose a great risk to the heath of the users. This is because beads that are pulverized may generate dust which may contain lead or arsenic that can cause great health complications when inhaled or injested or when it mixes with drinking water. 

We believe it is everyone’s right to look good. Jade beads provide you with one of the beast beads in the market just to ensure you look smart and classy. Dressing well is what gives someone an idea of what kind of person you are. If you dress smart, people will have the first impression of you as a smart person. Jade beads ensure that you are smart and people appreciate.

There are different types of beads at jade beads. They come in different colour, different sizes and different designs just to make sure you get what you want and that you have a lot of products to choose from.

 Below are some of items you get at jade beads

• Multi strand leather bracelet
• Jade brass chain anklet
• Valentine’s day gift turquoise bracelet
• Green jade beads
• Unique carved Chinese green jade beads

​The above listed products are just some of the few products you get at jade beads. There are many more products not listed above. The products are made in a unique way. There are those beads that are very small in size. They come in different colours like green, blue, red, brown, and many more colours.

The beads are shiny and look good. They are light so that you do not feel the burden of carrying something heavy. The designers of these beads take their time and study different cultures around the world. They have incorporated a lot of cultures around the world so that if you love some particular culture, you would have a chance to be like them by embracing the beads made according to their culture.

There are those beads that have a mix of different materials. There are natural beads, metal beads and those beads made from precious stones. In case you want a mixture of all the types of materials then you can pick beads made from a mixture of different materials.
Most of jade beads are handmade. The hands that make them are totally talented and it is a guarantee that the product you get is of very high quality. There are beads removed naturally from trees. Such beads are naturally beautiful and they are used to make necklaces and earrings the same way they were removed from trees. These beads only need drilling holes in them and they are ready to use. They are however not exactly the same size

There are many types of jewelry and everyone has his own preferences. These will vary depending on the sex and even the type of clothing with a combination of the occasion. Snap jewelry offers a wide variety for one to choose from. These include the following:

• Snap buttons
• Snap metal bracelets
• Snap necklaces
• Snap leather bracelets
• Snap pendants
• Snap earrings
• Snap necklace chains among many more

Snap buttons
Snap jewelry has a wide range of buttons made with different designs and applicable for both sexes. These buttons are available in three designs, design one which has germstone arranged in between the buttons, design two with the multicolored germstones arranged on the peripheral and in some cases having the stones both on the perimeter and at the center of the button and design three having a flower like arrangement. With snap jewelry, you can still get other many more button designs such as the pearls, rhinestone among others that can match with your occasional dressing.
Snap metal bracelets
Snap metal bracelets are a string of bracelets that come in various design to match any type of style. They are made with materials ranging from metal alloys to hand cut and machine cut gemstones and is of considerably reasonable price. We have a variety to button snap metal bracelets to to large volume hollow metal chunk to the customized button snaps with wrist watches on.

Snap necklaces
Snap jewelry offers a wide range of necklace jewelry from pendants to chain jewelry and a broad band of beads. Snap jewelry has got various turquoise and char,m necklaces fitted with a variety of multicolored beads with hanging charms that are very atreactive and can make you stand out of the crowd. In case of chain lovers, there is also something in store for them. You can have pendant necklace with chain chain of upto 18mm fit or chain 18mm fit with snap chunk. The pendants come in wide varieties from love sign metallic chromes to pearls of and gemstone or a combination of all of them.
Snap jewelry has an endless list of goodies offered for the purposes of customer satisfaction and the urge to ensure all the customers appeal improves and their dress codes matches their ornaments. It therefore up to you to rise to the occasion and decide which jewelry matches your style.   

​Hi, my dear friends, have you ever encountered such an embarrassed situation that in your earring box you can’t find a pair of special or exotic earrings to match your  dressing? Don’t worry, today I’m going share you an easy DIY tutorial on how to make stylish and exotic seed bead earrings. Maybe you can add a new pair of unique earrings in your earring box after learning this article. Let’ s see the details together.

Here are what I’ m using to make these wire wrapped earrings:
6mm Red Faceted Glass Beads
3mm Purple Glass Seed Beads
5cm Gold Bugle Beads
12mm Red Acrylic Beads
Iron Jump Rings
Iron Earring Hook
Fishing Wire
Flat Nose Plier
Scissors

​How to make these glass drop earrings:
Step 1: Slide 2 gold bugle beads to the middle of the finishing wire. Then thread the left part of the wire through the right bugle bead as picture shows. Finally, use a needle to slide another bead to the wire and tighten it.

​Step 2: After finishing 8 lines of bugle bead patterns, you need to put a needle in the second bugle bead and slide 11 purple seed beads to the needle. Then twist the needle and thread it through the seventh bead like picture shows. Finally, repeat the same ways to make a seed bead string on the other side of the bugle bead patterns.
 

​Step 3: Put a needle in the first bugle bead and slide 16 purple seed beads to it. Then twist the needle and thread it through the first bugle bead like picture shows. Do the same steps with the other side of the bugle bead patterns. Next, put a needle in the third bugle bead and slide 9 purple seed beads, a 6mm red faceted glass bead and 9 purple seed beads to it in sequence as picture shows.

​Step 4: Connect the needle with the left end of the sixth bugle bead as picture shows. Secondly, put a needle in the right end of the sixth bugle bead and thread 9 purple seed beads to it. Next thread the other end of the needle through the central red glass bead. Then slide another 9 purple seed beads to the needle and connect it with the left end of the third bugle bead. Finally, repeat the same ways to make the other seed bead string as picture shows.

​Step 5: Slide about 30 purple seed beads to the needle and connect it with the two ends of the last bugle bead as picture shows. Next, at the middle of the seed bead string, slide 4 purple seed beads, a 12mm red acrylic bead, a seed bead, a 6mm faceted glass bead and a seed bead in sequence to the wire as picture shows. Then thread the wire backward through the acrylic bead, the seed bead and the glass bead and finally slide other four seed beads to the wire like picture shows. 

​Step 6: Tighten the red glass bead drop as picture shows. Secondly, slide 30 purple seed beads to the needle and connect it with the two ends of the first bugle bead. Next, at the middle of the bead string, slide 4 seed beads, 6mm faceted glass beads and 4 seed beads in sequence to the wire as picture shows. Then thread the wire backward through the red glass bead as picture shows.
 

​Finally slide another 4 seed beads to the wire and tighten the bead pattern like picture shows.

​Step 7: Hook the jump ring to the purple seed bead hoop. Then connect the earring hook to the lamp drop with jump ring. Finally repeat the above steps to make another seed bead earring.

​WOW, we have finished this pair of red bead drop earrings, really beautiful, aren’t they?

​One more picture:

​Do you like these seed bead earrings? With red glass bead and chic purple seed beads, this pair of wire wrapped earrings are full of exotic feelings, which can increase your charm when you wear them to parties or other occasions. If you want to make your earring box more rich and colorful, try to make these red bead drop earrings by yourself. Have a nice day! 

​The jewelry supplies that are required for making jewelry are essentially jewelry wire, glass beads, and findings. The accompanying passages will examine these three jewelry making supply classifications.

Jewelry wire is a rule metal, copper, silver, gold, silver-plated, gold-plated or gold-filled wire. This wire is sold in a few sizes, called gauges (based on a standard called the American Wire Gauge in the US), with the bigger gauge wire being littler in measurement. For making lasting wire segments utilizing one of our WigJig devices, typically 16, 18 or 20 gauge wire will be utilized, however, apprentices ought to keep away from 16 gauges since it is harder to work with. For interfacing wire parts with the wrapped bead connect, as often as possible 22 gauge wire will be utilized. It would be ideal if you select one of the connections underneath for more data on jewelry wire.

Beads are embellishing things produced using an assortment of materials that when all is said in done have a gap utilized for holding the bead as a part of a position in your jewelry. Beads can be made of glass, wood, metal, etc.

Findings are jewelry making supplies and parts like fastens, head pins, ear wires, hop rings, and other made or hand made segments. A few cases of findings that are fairly imperative jewelry supplies required for making jewelry and ought to be obtained by anybody beginning in making jewelry are:

• Head Pins
• Catches.
• Ear Wires or Posts and Ear Clutches
• Jump Rings.

There are numerous different classes of findings, yet the four distinguished above are when all is said in done more vital and fundamental for most starting a jewelry making ventures. A tenderfoot would be all around served by buying some modest head pins, catches, and ear wires to be utilized for making jewelry. These things can be effortlessly made with the WigJig devices, yet for a tenderfoot, you would be in an ideal situation to investigate our jewelry making supplies and buy some silver-tone or gold-tone findings to utilize making rehearse pieces.

Conclusion on jewelry making supplies:

There are numerous consumable supplies that are utilized when making jewelry. Above we have depicted the jewelry wire, beads, and jewelry making findings that are regularly utilized when making jewelry by hand. Large portions of these supplies must be obtained and accessible when you start your jewelry making the venture.

The meaning of snap is buttoned faster. It is used in many ornaments and jewelry. It makes the ornament easy to use. They were invented to ease the use of ornament by adding the snap buttons on the end of the ornament. It made the wearing of the ornament easy. Snap has two parts in it. The base part is called hub. And the other part is called snub of the base. These two parts are called finding and snap charm. It also has another use that is they make jewelry interchangeable. In this article, we are going to talk about the snap jewelry.
Jewelry is an important part of the life of a woman. Every woman loves to wear fashionable jewelry casually or on a special occasion. But the wear and tear of jewellery can be tiresome as they can cause many problems during handling of heavy jewellery. Therefore, the snap jewelry is coming to end the problems. The snap buttons are placed at the ends of the ornament. This makes the snap button interchangeable.
 
Snap jewellery is not expensive as the regular ornaments. this means that you can wear them regularly anywhere. Snap jewellery can be very creative art. Because to find the right combination of colours in the snap buttons can be fun. A creative person can create very good items from the snap buttons.
 
Advantages of snap jewelry:
 
A major plus point of the snap jewelry is that they do not keep much space. It helps when you are travelling to somewhere. Instead of caring different ornaments one can carry a collection of beads and easily create a different type of ornaments.

They are easy to use and easy maintain. Snap jewelry gives a profit when it is bought wholesale. Even if the snap buttons are easily available in your local market. It is profitable to buy them online as the prices are very low. 

The advantage of using snap jewelry is that they provide many options of new jewelry every time for the user. You can create new ornaments from the older ones. With the regular ornaments, it is not possible to wear the type of clothes you want. But with the snap jewelry, it is possible to wear whatever one wants.

Snap ornaments have only to be rearranged as per the needs or the combination of clothes.

Maybe snap jewelry cannot fully replace the regular jewelry but it is trendy in the market and is in the latest fashion.

Hi guys! Halloween is right around the corner, so toady I’m here to share you a black wire wrapped bat pendant necklace, which will be great for Halloween parties! Hope you’ ll like the design.

Tools and materials needed to make this bat pendant necklace:
Cross Chain
Black Round Seed Beads
4x4MM Faceted Bicone Glass Beads
12x8MM Black Faceted Drop Glass Beads
6MM Black Round Glass Beads
6mm Faceted Round Glass Beads
Spring Ring Clasp
Jump Rings
Eyepins
Headpins
0.5MM copper Jewelry Wire
1MM Black Aluminum Wire
Pliers

How to make this wire wrapped pendant necklace:
Step 1: Make the basic bat pattern
Firstly, draw a bat on the paper;
Secondly, cut a piece of black aluminum wire, bend it into a wave shape and twist a loop at each wire end;
Thirdly, cut another piece of black aluminum wire and twist a loop at the middle of the wire. Then make two more loops at each wire as picture shows.

Step 2: Decorate the bat pendant with black glass beads
Firstly, prepare a long piece of black copper wire, and combine those two aluminum bat patterns together with this copper wire;
Secondly, thread a glass bead onto the copper wire and wrap it to the bat pendant;
Thirdly, keep wrapping more beads until the whole bat pendant is covered with black glass beads.

Step 3: Make five bead dangles for the black bead necklace
Firstly, thread a round glass bead onto an eyepin, make a loop at the top and cut off extra wire;
Secondly, thread a drop glass bead onto a headpin, make a loop and cut off extra wire;
Thirdly, connect the round bead link and drop bead link together to make a dangle;
Fourth, repeat to make another four dangles.

​Step 4: Finish the bat pendant necklace
Firstly, add one bead dangle to each loop at the bottom of the bat;
Secondly, cut two pieces of cross chains and add them to the upper loops as shown in the picture;
Thirdly, add a jump ring to a chain end, add a spring clasp to another chain end.

​Here comes the final look of this black glass bead pendant necklace:

Do you like it? Bat is one of the most classic Halloween elements, if you wanna make something special for your Halloween parties, try this bat pendant necklace!

Glass beads are crucial objects for making jewelry as well as beading projects. This means that they are used for making beautiful necklaces, bracelets and earrings. They are aimed at fulfilling the happiness of all ladies as they enhance and reflect the beauty of a woman. Incredibly they are also used to sew on fabric clothes and accessories. The fact that they are available in various sizes, colors and patterns increases the curiosity to know more. Mind you they are made in different technique, the traditional lamp working technique being the most prominent for making fine glass beads. This technique entails heating colored glass rods and wrapping by hand around a mandrel after which they are left to cool before removing. Surprisingly the designer may opt to make them in single colours. Alternatively after cooling they can be made in a variety of colours to create attractive textures and shapes.

​Types of Glass beads

Beyond all doubts, glass beads are awesome, creation. They are widely used as currency, works of arts as well as esteemed symbols. As a matter of fact, former civilized societies for instance Egyptians, Romans, Vikings and Native Americans created, traded and worn them as jewelry. There are several types of glass beads. Some include;

Russian Artist Glass beads-Your jewelry design need nothing less than the beads in question. They have been hand painted by artists in Russia. For your information, they are the kind that command attention.

Dichroic glass beads- these beads have a feature that you cannot just find anywhere. The unique feature makes them different from all other jewelry components and sub components. They have vivid ribbons of luminous color. More so, they are offered in different shapes as well as color combination. This means that you will get one of your choice. Dichroic glass is simply made by depositing vaporized metals onto sheets of glass. This undertaking results to beautiful beads with vibrating color and an oily shimmer of glittering and changeable colors.

Czech glass beads- If you haven’t found the beads of your taste, I tend to believe, it is because you haven’t heard or seen the Czech glass beads made in Czech republic. Their beads have color variations, having the most consistent, amazing beads. Believe me you, you can`t help buying. The beads in question leave you without an option.

The above are just few types of glass beads. They are too many to be contained in this article.