Make beautiful jewelry using brass beads and bugle beads

Putting different beads with various shapes and colors together is the essence of making unique jewelry. However, you cannot mix just any kind of beads you have to combine beads that blend in with each other in terms of finish, color and size so that your pieces are in harmony. There are many kinds of beads to choose from in the market from brass beads to bugle beads, seed beads, pearl beads, glass beads and many more. There is no end to the beads available for you to make jewelry.

What are bugle beads?

If you are familiar with seed beads, then these beads belong to the same family of beads. They are narrow small tubes of cut glass that are available in twisted or cylindrical designs. They are tube like so they are longer than they are thick, and they come in sizes ranging from 1.5 mm to 35 mm. They are available in a number of colors, shapes, finishes and coatings and hence they make very attractive creative jewelry. In the past, they were primarily used to decorate attire and items like handbags. They are made in a number of countries such as Czech Republic, Japan and China.

What are brass beads?

Brass is a metal that is an alloy of copper and zinc. It is normally a mix of 70 percent copper and 30 percent zinc. When polished it gives an amazing shine but is prone to tarnishing after sometime. To prevent this, it is sometimes combined with other metals like antimony and tin as an anti-tarnish measure. In other cases, they apply lacquer on it to prevent tarnishing. Brass beads make nice jewelry especially when intermingled with beads like amazonite.

Using bugle beads to make jewelry

These beads make good jewelry when used to make pieces with a number of strands or when incorporated in fringes. They come in different styles and colors, so you can combine different colors to come up with unique designs. They combine well with cube beads and crystal beads. They can even be combined with materials like ribbon that are not commonly used to make jewelry to come up with unique designs. You can also string them together and sew them on to a cloth and make peter pan collars that can be worn over clothes or as a separate piece of creative jewelry. They also make beautiful anklets and bracelets.

Can you combine bugle beads with other beads?

These beads can be combined with other kinds of beads such as brass beads and crystal beads, to make nice jewelry pieces. However, there are some things to take into consideration. They sometimes have sharp edges and to prevent injury to a wearer, or the fraying of the stringing threads used to make jewelry, many people use smooth edged beads or seed beads between them. This also gives them a unique design. They also come in inconsistent sizes, so one has to take time to choose or cut the beads to the size they require.

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