You can buy a bracelet in a store, but you can make it yourself, even from junk material. How to make a bracelet from threads, elastic bands, zippers, beads? Weaving a bracelet is an exciting experience. It calms, helps to open up creativity and create a designer author's item.
How to make hand jewelry out of zippers?
Indeed, broken, well-worn items or those that you have not used for a long time easily turn into women's accessories. For example, such a bracelet can be easily sewn from an old zipper.
If you periodically empty the wardrobe of old things, do not rush to throw them away, unblock the zipper and put it into action. Here is a complete list of everything you need for needlework:
- metal zipper;
- pliers or tweezers;
- scissors;
- 2 leather clips;
- clasp to match.
Here's how to make a bracelet: Place the zipper in front of you, cut the top and bottom of the zipper so that it splits into two serrated blanks. Now cut each in half, only take 3 pieces, you won't need the fourth.
Fold these 3 blanks, secure one edge with a leather clip. Weave a pigtail, on the back, fix three edges in the same way.
Fix the clasp in the ears of the clips, after which the beautiful accessory is ready.
And here's how to make a bracelet with your own hands from denim or other zipper with a beautiful fabric. Attach it to your wrist, measure it according to its size, adding a little. Cut off the excess.
Attach clamps and clasps to both ends of the blank in the same way as described in the example above, and another stylish thing is done.
If you want to decorate the whole wrist in this style, then take 2 long zippers with iron teeth. Cut the fabric as close to them as possible. On one side, leave the sliders that close and open these snakes. Connect them with a small ring that has a plate with two holes on it.
On the other side, cut the clips, connect both zippers here with a leather clip. It remains to wind the accessory around your hand, fasten the clasp and you can show off in a stylish new thing.
Beautiful bracelets are obtained if you not only make them out of lightning, but also decorate with such snakes.
For this accessory you will need:
- long zipper, plus a few more for decoration;
- Velcro;
- Super glue;
- scissors.
Take the main zipper, wrap it around your wrist 2 times, see if it is long enough. Cut the first and second bracelet blanks. Place them side by side, sew from the long side. Glue the Velcro to one and the second small edges.
Trim the fabric at the accessory zippers. As you twist, glue them to the bracelet. Then you can put the jewelry on your hand.
Thread bracelets
There are a lot of ideas for creating such armbands. Check out the original Peruvian weave. It's called broomstick. This handicraft makes it possible to obtain openwork bracelets from threads.
Having mastered this technique, you can knit a hat, belt and even a jacket.
A plastic stick is needed for the Peruvian broomstick, but you can replace it with one from ice cream or use a ruler, thick knitting needle. The wider the width of these items, the longer the loops will be in the openwork areas. In order to make such bracelets with your own hands, you will need:
- threads;
- hook;
- knitting needle, narrow ruler or stick.
Tie a chain of threads, the length of which is equal to the size of the wrist. Count how many loops you have. Their number must be a multiple of five, that is, divisible by 5 without a remainder. If you have a different number of loops, add them.
Now pull out the last loop so that it becomes large, throw it over the selected auxiliary object. Pass the tip of the hook into the penultimate loop of the chain, knit, pulling out the resulting loop, also put it on this item. Decorate all other loops in the same way. It clearly shows how to make a bracelet from threads, a collage from a photo.
Knit the first loop, then remove the next five, knit them as one loop, fasten with another loop. Then work 5 single crochets. If you have one broomstick in 4 loops, then you will need to make 4 single crochets at this stage. If the broomstick consists of 6 loops, then it is 6 single crochet that you will knit here.
The last loop becomes the first loop of the next row. Pull it out, slide it over a stick or ruler. Grasping the thread at the back of the next buttonhole, pull it out and also put it on the auxiliary item. When all the extended stitches of the second row are ready, shape them again as just described.
When the bracelet of the desired width is knitted, knit the last loop, pull the thread, fasten it and cut it. Here's how to make a piece of jewelry for your hand. If you're looking for starter bracelets, then this simple idea is sure to please. Such baubles are made from threads and nuts.
Here is a list of the essentials:
- thread or waxed rope;
- nuts;
- Scotch;
- scissors.
This bracelet is woven using macrame technique. Cut 2 strands half a meter long. Fold them in half. Make a small loop in this place, attach it to the table with tape.
You will have enough threads if you fold them so that as a result, the 2 outermost ones become longer than the two central ones. After all, the main weaving is carried out precisely with the outer ropes. Put the left thread on the others perpendicularly, wind the right thread to the left so that it braids 2 central threads from behind and comes out through the loop of the left rope. Tighten. Now make the same knot, but starting from the right thread.
So, alternating these extreme cords, make some beautiful knots. Then begin to weave the hooks by inserting the outer threads through their holes. Pass the strings through the first loop and sew at this point. If you wish, you can sew a button on one side of the bracelet and fasten it.
Beaded baubles
The presented patterns for weaving beaded bracelets are suitable even for beginners.
Focusing on them, you can easily create one of three bracelets or even all the models presented. Let's start with the first one, the diagram of which is at the top.
For such a bracelet you need:
- beads;
- beads in the form of hearts - 5 pcs., 2 brown and 2 blue;
- clasp;
- fishing line;
- scissors.
Cut a long piece of fishing line, string a clasp on it, place it in the middle. Fold the line in half and see how to make a beaded bracelet next. Now string blue and then brown beads on both ends of the line.
Spread the edges of the fishing line to the sides, first put on one and then on the other 9 beads each. Then reattach the ends of the line and string a heart-shaped bead over them. After that, put 9 beads on the right and left halves of the fishing line again and continue to weave the bracelet until it becomes the desired length.
You can increase or decrease the number of beads in one area at your discretion. Their color also depends on your preference. Finish the job just as you started, putting a brown and then a blue bead on both ends of the line, and finish by attaching the clasp. Tie the fishing line into 2 knots, push the ends back into the blue and brown beads, cut off the excess.
The second bauble is woven almost according to the same principle. These bracelets for beginners should not be difficult for them. For the second decoration, in addition to beads and beads, you will need an oblong bugle. First, put a clasp on the fishing line folded in half, then a blue bead, then spread the ends of the fishing line, string 2 beads for each, then one bugle bead.
Take the beads again, string 3 pieces on each side of the thin wire. Finish this step by stringing a large bead on both ends of the line. Repeat the steps, finish with fastening the clasp.
The last, third sample is a little more difficult to execute than the first two. But the presented patterns for weaving beaded bracelets will facilitate your work. Prepare for her:
- beads of three colors;
- clasp;
- scissors;
- fishing line.
String on a piece of wire folded in half, first a fastener, then a blue bead. Twist the ends of the fishing line, string one blue bead on each. Twist the ends of this thin cord again, string the blue, brown and blue beads on one side of the line. Place these 3 pieces in the center of the bracelet. Twist this fishing line with the second half of the fishing line and string the next 5 beads on that one.
So, alternating the left and right sides of the fishing line, relying on the diagram, weave the whole bracelet. At the end of the work, do not forget to attach the clasp and you can put on a bauble made with your own hands or donate it.
How to make a rubber band bracelet?
There are so many different types of creativity now. Amazing things are created from multi-colored rubber bands. They are sold in handicraft shops, dry goods stores.
Before making a bracelet from elastic bands, you need to purchase a slingshot for weaving or a special machine for this type of needlework - "monster tag".
In addition to equipment, you will need:
- 14 elastic bands of yellow, orange, light green, lemon color;
- hook;
- clip-fastener.
Here's how to weave elastic bracelets on a loom or slingshot using the fish scale pattern. For convenience, divide the rubber bands of each color group into 2 piles, so that each has 7 pieces.
Take an orange rubber band, put it on the left half of the slingshot, twist it with a figure eight, putting the second semicircle on the right side of the tool.
Now put on alternately 2 more orange rubber bands on both spears, without twisting.
Next, hook the left side of the first elastic band, remove it from this left spear in the center. In the same way, peel off the right side of this first elastic, centering it.
Slip the following elastic over the structure. Remove the right and left edges of the elastic band currently at the bottom, as you did just now, so that its edges are in the center.
In the same way, braid the remaining orange elastic bands from the pile where there are 7 of them. Then push the hook into the center of the structure, pull the loop of the bottom elastic up.
This is how such bracelets are woven from rubber bands on a slingshot further. Without lowering the elongated tip, put a yellow elastic band on top of the slingshot, remove the lower orange one as you did before.
Move the weaving down a little, put on a second yellow elastic band, arrange it in the same way - removing the edges to the center. Then finish this stage of weaving. Your bauble so far consists of seven orange and as many yellow rubber bands.
Now lemon-colored blanks are used, weave 7 pieces from this batch in the same way. If you want, put 2-3 elastic bands at once on the bracelet blank, and then put them on the slingshot one by one. Hold the main weave with the fingers of your free hand.
It remains to string and weave 7 elastic bands of light green color to make half of the baubles.
We do the second half of the bracelet as follows: first we put on and weave 7 light green rubber bands in turn, then 7 lemon-colored, the same amount of yellow ones and finish the work with orange elements.
To complete the process, throw the last upper elastic band onto the left spear, hook with a clip-fastener. Pull out the loop of this first two-piece top elastic and slide the second half of the buckle over it.
That's it, the work is complete. You can wear an original hand-made thing. If you like new interesting ideas, do not rush to leave this page, below it you will find useful stories that will help answer those questions that remained unclear.
This video clearly shows how to make a bracelet from threads using the Peruvian technique:
If you want to see how beaded bracelets are woven, the video will help you with this:
You can visually familiarize yourself with how to weave a bracelet from elastic bands by seeing the following plot.
