Bracelets from thread

Very often on the hot summer streets you can see girls and boys who wear bright wristbands on their wrists. These decorations are called baubles and consist of woven nodular and other methods of thread, which are associated with each other to create a single decoration.

Baubles symbolize friendship, peace and love, because it is not for nothing that the name of this wonderful bracelet in English sounds like "Friendship bracelet" and has a literal translation of "friendship bracelet".

The centuries-old history of woven bracelets began thanks to the Indians of North America, who had a tradition of putting ropes on their hands in the hands of friends and relatives. Such bracelets were associated with friendships: long wearing indicated a strong friendship, a specially lifted rope meant a public insult and completeness of good relations. Indians treated their traditions with care, and various ways of weaving such bracelets were passed down from generation to generation, as one of the shrines.

Similar decorations were used by the ancient Slavs, who wove natural motifs into the ornament of the bracelet to protect a person and his home from evil spirits and a supportive mood of Slavic gods.

In the 60s of the last century, a certain way of life, the representatives of which were called hippies, became the trendy youth movement of the whole world. They adhered to the principle of "all peace and love", and bracelets made of knitted threads became the hallmark of this subculture. Baubles have gained additional meaning: pairs of people in love with each other wore the same accessories, and in some patterns and colors of the threads one could tell a person’s biography.

Such bracelets were passed from hand to hand, thus traveling around the world. It was believed that these bracelets attract good luck and guarantee safety during the trendy auto-stop at that time. The baubles were even a certain bargaining unit, and they often paid the fare for the drivers of the ride.

Over time, the hippie cult has been lost, but baubles are considered a fashion accessory today. These bracelets can be seen on the wrists of young fashionistas and women of the world, who give their image individuality, brightness and vitality.

The bracelet made of threads has many varieties. Consider the most popular.

• Friendship Bracelet. This type of bracelets is woven from floss in various ways. The most common of them is to tie a hank of threads with one worker and tighten the loop. To create jewelry you will need to spend some time and effort, but this process gives the body a strong energy and soothes it perfectly.
• Shamballa Bracelet represents a different interlacing of threads and beads. This decoration has a thousand-year history and plays the role of a specific talisman that protects the bearer of the decoration from evil otherworldly forces and attracts luck and health.
• Charm It consists not only of beads and threads, but also of various shells, pendants, coins, natural stones and other things that the future owner likes or has a common history connected with. In another case, it will not bring the expected effect. When creating a talisman, it is necessary to clear the mind and soul of negative thoughts and desires, get enough of the natural energy of the sun, wind and water and weave the decoration, filling it with your love, inner peace and desire of all the best.

When weaving baubles you should carefully choose the color of the threads, since each of them has its own philosophy, a certain value and an effect on the carrier.

• White symbolizes innocence, purity and innocence. Mostly freedom-loving people with a belief in truth and justice wear the baubles with the predominant white color. Such bracelets have a certain power of light, faith and independence.
• Blue - peace and harmony, openness and tranquility, love for the higher forces and friendliness to all those around. Such baubles help to find friends and good luck on long journeys.
• Green - life, nature, youth and strength. It gives hope, spiritual harmony, helps to find love and gain faith.
• Red symbolizes passion, blood and fire. It helps in love affairs and gives life energy and joy from being.
• The black - this color was woven into their bracelets by lovers of magic, witchcraft and the supernatural. Gives strong energy, courage and independence.
• Pink speaks of reverie and some infantilism. It has the property of caring for emotional balance and external beauty.
• Orange - this color is interwoven in order to increase vitality, positive mood and sexual desire.
• Blue - The color of wisdom, peace and harmony. Gives strength and confidence.
• Yellow attracts good luck and good mood.
• Violet - The thread of this color indicates the wisdom and originality of the individual. Develops imagination and creative abilities.
• Brown - the color of stability, family and wealth. It will help you to find true friends and acquire strong family ties.

The main condition for the presence of a certain energy and mystical properties of such a talisman is the sincere enjoyment of the result.

Regardless of whether a person believes in the special power of braided bracelets or not, baubles are a stylish and original decoration that can give a completeness to ethnic style in clothes or lightness and lightness to a summer look. In addition, the direction “hand made” is trendy at the present time, so the handmade bauble will serve as an excellent gift to a loved one. Upon giving, such a gift should be tied to the recipient's hand independently and for fixing to tie three knots, making a wish on the third.

In order to weave beautiful, with complex patterns and from different material baubles you need to learn the basics: learn the basic knots and learn how to read weaving patterns.

Consider the easiest and most common methods and materials for self-weaving bracelets.

• From the floss.

Weaving baubles from floss is one of the most simple and common. There are 2 main types of weaving: oblique - the result is a pattern in the form of arrows, fir-trees or braids, and the direct one is more complex and consists of various shapes, pictures or words.

Based on the extended list of types of weaving, baubles from floss are divided into several types.

1. Peacock - bright shades and a special weaving technique create a beautiful bracelet with a pattern resembling a peacock tail.
2. Arrow - one of the simplest and most common variants of weaving, when using a maximum of four colors of threads.
3. Pigtail - woven in various ways, but in the end it turns out a beautiful and bright pattern that resembles a pigtail.
4. Peruvian wave - insanely beautiful pattern that resembles a sea wave. Products with such a pattern are ideal for use as a belt or headband.
5. Ladder - a rather voluminous weaving for the most sophisticated lovers of baubles.
6. Lattice - a spectacular way of weaving in the form of a mesh.
7. Zigzag - an original and intricate pattern for lovers of exclusivity and individuality.

It is necessary to take the flowers of floss that you like, fix and immobilize one end. UhThis can be done in one of the ways, based on the available tools.

1. Fasten the stationery clip on the book, arrange the necessary threads and press tightly with the clip.
2. Tie a thread into a knot and hang on a sewing pin, sticking the last one in a convenient place.
3. Glue the ends of the threads with transparent tape to the countertop or other surface.
4. Fasten the threads to the tab for the report.

After that, all the threads need to be knotted in one bundle, and then divided into three equal parts. These parts weave in one pigtail of the required length. We need to weave gently, without haste, with positive thoughts in your head. You can softly hum or listen to your favorite music. After the pigtail has reached the required parameters, it is necessary to re-tie the threads in one bundle, cut off the extra length (leaving a small piece for fixing the bauble on the wrist) and enjoy the result.

You can make a rather original jewelry in another, less easy way: cut a bracelet-length strip from a plastic bottle and wrap it on a floss thread, fixing the ends with glue and attaching accessories to securely fix it on your wrist.

• Of knitting yarn.

Baubles can be weaved from ordinary knitting threads. For this process, suitable natural, artificial, synthetic, thick, wool or any other.

It is possible to weave a bracelet by analogy with weaving of floss, or you can approach the process from the other side and create a unique decoration with a crochet hook from two threads at once. Especially this method is relevant for those who have knitting experience.

Consider in stages the easiest and easiest way to crochet baubles.

1. Create a simple loop on the thread and thread a crochet hook into it.
2. Grab the thread and hook through the loop.
3. Tighten the loop.
4. Wrap the thread around the base of the hook.
5. Continue to repeat these actions cyclically until you get a bracelet, the required length.
6. Tie a knot, remove unnecessary tip length.

• From thin threads.

Weaving of thin threads requires not only accuracy and creative approach, but also assiduity, since the small thickness and many knots draw down this process. But the result is worth it: some craftsmen create real and almost weightless masterpieces of thin threads.

The personalized bauble can be an original gift or serve as a kind of business card.

First you need to create a scheme for writing the name by analogy with the scheme for embroidery. To do this, use a pencil and a piece of paper in the box or a special computer program.

1. Color the cells that correspond to the letters of the name, based on the principle of "one cell - one thread."
2. Determine the free field so that the inscription is in the middle.
3. Count the number of cells horizontally at the rate of "1 cm of decoration = 5 rows."
4. The number of cells must be divided by 5 - the length of the name is obtained.
5. Measure your wrist and determine the name in the middle of this length.

Fenichka with the name is woven in three variants of knots:

1. right - circle the left thread over the stretched right and tighten,
2. the left is the same action, only the opposite is mirrored,
3. the corner is the same, just skip the thread from the bottom.

To create it, you need to take 8 strands of one color and 5 other. They need to be expanded and secured in the form - 3 + 8 + 2. The first thread should be 3-4 times longer.

Knots need to do a long thread and tightly tighten them for a beautiful type of letters. Further weaving explains the scheme in detail.

• Macrame.

Macrame - technique of knot weaving of various materials: fishing line, linen rope, twine or any other threads.Baubles made with the help of this technique are incredibly beautiful, but they are quite complex in creation, especially if they consist of 4 or more different threads.

There are many different patterns of weaving jewelry, including bracelets - macrame. Below is one of them, following which you can create an exclusive accessory that fits any stylish image.

• With beads

Bracelets made of yarns and beads look rather advantageous compared to others. There are dozens of ways to create such jewelry, consider some of them.

1. Buy in the store cute beads and a simple bracelet. Tie a beautiful yarn to a bracelet in random order.
2. Add a few beads to the thread in the process of weaving baubles, for example, "pigtails".
3. Weave an elegant Shamballa bracelet, which is designed not only to decorate, but also to protect against various adversities by attracting luck and vitality.