Macramé is becoming very popular amongst beading and jewellery making. The techniques of macrame lend themselves to creating lovely bracelets. In this guide, we will start by showing you how the square knot can be used to progress your macrame projects. To prepare for this project you will need: Macramé board (available by clicking here) A […]
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Have you ever used our 7 braid disk for your kumihimo projects? This disk, also known as as ‘fill the gap’ or 7 Strand Kumihimo, has been designed and manufactured by the team at Riverside Beads. The disk offers a simpler way to create 7 Strand Braided Kumihimo designs. How do I use the disk?
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Adding end caps to Kumihimo braids is a great jewellery making technique to finish your jewellery pieces. Kumihimo is the art of Japanese braiding and is most popularly uses now to make amazing pieces of jewellery. Owner of Riverside Beads, Donna McKean Smith has written two books about Kumihimo so you could say this is
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Hello Beautiful Beaders, How excited are we all for Monday? Imagine how thrilling it’s going to be to see real life human beans in our lovely store again?! We have dusted down the hatches and antibacterial gelled every last inch of the shop in anticipation of your return. Plus I have an AMAZING offer for
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Here are top tips for photographing jewellery at home using your smartphone or tablet. Perfect for when you want to showcase your handmade jewellery pieces. When you maximise the professional look of your photographs uploading them to your Instagram, Facebook page or online shop like Etsy, Shopify or your own website, just adds more to
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As some of our classes are held online via zoom, we have put together this handy guide to using this online platform. If you haven’t used Zoom before please rest assured it’s very easy to navigate, even for the biggest technophobes! When you sign up for a class you’ll be sent a meeting room ID
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