I suppose there are many individuals who would look at this article's title, "Learning How to Bead," and write them back as silly. After all, there's not much more to the mechanics of beading than there is to stringing snacks to put 'round the Xmas Tree, right? That, and a free beading project to work on, and you're ready. How much more is there to talk about? What else is there to talk about?

The truth, however, is that there is a fair bit more to learning how to bead than simply stringing popcorn, and this article will have a closer look at what else you'll want to know.

Learning how to bead required learning in four basic areas. They may seem innocuous enough initially, but upon closer examination, the inevitable conclusion is that there's much more to learning how to bead than first you would think.

The four basic "disciplines" you must master to truly know how to bead are as follows:

Mechanics

Patterning

Color Selection

Medium Selection/Mixing

We'll read through the particulars of these one-by-one as a means of putting you on the route to learning how to bead.

The first step in your "learn how to bead" education is mechanics. If you don't have the mechanics down, then the rest is irrelevant. Fortunately, from a mechanics point of view, it really is about as easy as stringing popcorn. If it can be done, then you've already gotten this aspect of knowing how to bead down, but even here, there is some subtlety. Did you know, for example, that when stringing pearls, you want to tie a knot on each side of the stone to prevent potential damage caused by the stones rubbing against one another? Or that there are times when you merely want to tie a loose knot as a "bead brake" at the end of the line you're not working?

So even where the basic mechanics are concerned, there's more to learning the way to bead than you might first think. Certainly, however, this is the simplest of the four disciplines to get good at.

The next discipline you'll want to wrap your brain around in learning how to bead is the notion of patterning. Complete books can (and have) been published on this subject, and once you really get into it and start studying it, you'll quickly find that of all the disciplines, this one is the most intricate and involved. Definitely the one you'll devote the most time on when learning how to bead.

Color selection is one part art and another part science. Art students discover more about complimentary and contrasting colors as a first course, therefore are a leg up in this department, but there are many resources both online and off which will guide you through this field on your quest to learn how to bead. Don't think of saving here. Proper color selection can make or break your patterns!

Finally, the last major discipline to master in learning how to bead is medium selection and the proper mixing of mediums. This is often a practical, common sense discipline (ie., don't combine cheap plastic material with your semi-precious stones!) but even here there is some subtlety to be found.

Learning how to bead isn't rocket science, and finding a free beading project to practice with is dead simple. Anyone can do it, and with practice, do it nicely. Just remember that there's a bit more to it than stringing popcorn!

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