Beaded Bags

Bags embroidered with beads can be not only a fashion accessory that complements evening or casual look. This is a great way to show your imagination and decorate your favorite handbag with your own hands. Moreover, this type of needlework has been relevant for many years.

Beads are tiny multicolored beads with which you can decorate clothes, shoes and accessories.

Depending on its appearance, the beads are divided into several groups:

• bugles (colored glass tubes, which can be of different size, shape and length);
• brocade (transparent glass beads, the hole of which is painted in gold or silver paint);
• A chameleon (multi-colored glass beads are covered with paint in a contrasting hole);

• oblivious (almost opaque material aged in pastel colors and covered with glitter);
• natural (frosted glass beads, not covered with glitter);
• metal (glass is covered with paint "under the metal").

In addition to the above types of beads can be striped, marble, iridescent, iridescent, graphite, with gold thread. The variety of shapes and colors allows you to create the most beautiful and unusual embroidery with your own hands. In many ways, thanks to this, bags embroidered with beads are so popular and never go out of fashion.

Embroidery is one of the favorite women's hobbies. It is painstaking work that requires a certain attention, time and patience, but the result surpasses the highest expectations. A glittering or iridescent colorful canvas decorated with tiny beads makes even the most ordinary shopping bag a fashionable accessory.

The history of this handicraft is rooted in ancient Phenicia. Approximately 6 thousand years ago, the first glass stones appeared, vaguely resembling modern beads. According to historical data, these stones were obtained quite by chance by sailors carrying soda. At one of the overnight stays they laid her around the fire and left her for the night. The next morning, in the extinct campfire, the sailors discovered glassy stones.

With the development of glass craft, beads became increasingly popular. At first it was used to decorate the clothes of the nobility. The secret of the production of this decorative element was kept in a huge secret, and therefore each thing embroidered with beads was truly exclusive.

In ancient Russia, festive, expensive clothes were decorated with pearl beads. Around the XVIII century, it began to be used for embroidery of church icons.

Today, embroidery with multi-colored glass beads or other types of beads is a very popular and sought-after type of needlework. A fairly simple embroidery technique helps to effectively decorate a children's handbag, youth backpack, evening clutch. All conditions have been created for this today: a lot of proposed patterns for embroidery, a huge choice of materials and a personal fantasy.

Knitted bags - the most popular option for decorating with colored beads. The fabric, knitted or crocheted from wool, cotton, acrylic, bamboo, linen, viscose, is perfectly combined with delicate, beautiful embroidery.Such bags always look very impressive. Beads can completely cover the surface of the bag or some part of it, decorate the strap, and be used to decorate the fringe.

The situation is more difficult with dense materials: it is suede, natural and artificial leather, drape. In such cases, it is best to embroider not on the bag itself, but on a thin piece of fabric, which then can be simply sewn to the base.

Today, beadwork can be seen not only on T-shirts, dresses, skirts, shirts, but also on bags, gloves, headbands, hats, scarves and other accessories. Multi-colored stones perfectly decorate the finished product, they look very unusual, due to its relief, volume, color changing under the rays of the sun. In addition, such embroidery is very durable.

It is not surprising that every woman at least once in her life thought about creating such a small masterpiece with her own hands. This will require a bit: the necessary materials and perseverance.

If the experience is small, then it is better to use an embroidery pattern applied on the canvas. A kit with a blank for embroidery and the necessary beads can be purchased at a specialty store. From the skilled worker it is required only, strictly adhering to the scheme, to embroider a picture.

For the first experience to be successful, you need to follow a few simple rules:

1. Threads for embroidery are selected in the tone of the canvas. By the black base, you can pick up the thread to match the beads or fishing line.
2. The length of the thread should be about 5 times the width of the finished row of embroidery.
3. The easiest way to embroidery is a half cross. In this case, the tilt should be made only in one direction, then the beads will lay exactly and tightly.
4. Beads are best kept not in bags, but in small transparent boxes or containers so that they are always at hand.

Before you begin, you need to prepare everything you need:

• bugles of different colors;
• special needles for embroidery. They differ from ordinary ones in thickness and small ears;
• nylon, nylon thread or fishing line.

If for embroidery you plan to use not a ready-made pattern, but your own sketch, then you need to decide in advance on the ornament, to choose the beads that match the color. It can be some specific pattern, abstraction, geometry or fantasy print.

If the evening clutch or an elegant handbag is decorated with embroidery, it is best to use solid or transparent beads. So the ornament will look more elegant.

In order to make and decorate an original accessory with your own hands, you will need a cloth bag, scissors, beads of different colors and a waxed thread. When working with an ornament, it is worth remembering one of the rules of embroidery: it is desirable to place large stones or beads in the center of the embroidery. They set the basic tone and character of the finished product. Gaps and gaps are best filled with small beads.

You should not immediately use a large number of shades, it is enough to take at least 3-4 colors. For embroidery is usually used seam "back needle" or seam "pinned".

Beadwork is an original way to decorate and update an old favorite bag. But the easiest way to do this is if the accessory is made of denim, textile fabric, flax, cotton, and other lightweight materials. You can decorate bags of more dense materials, such as leather, suede or kozhzama, by first making embroidery on a small piece of fabric, and then pasting it directly onto the handbag.

By choosing the right color for the finished bag, you can use the principle of contrast. For example, light gray leatherette will be perfectly combined with embroidery with black and white beads.

The silver handbag attracts attention by itself, so the abundance of multi-colored beads will make such an accessory much less expressive and elegant. It is best to choose the material of white, turquoise, black, gray, gold or transparent beads.

For example, a blue suede handbag will be an excellent base for embroidery in pale pink and green tones. The orange accessory will effectively decorate purple and green beads, embroidery of violet, turquoise, white or black color is suitable for a pink handbag.