Learn to Make Love Knot Beads: A Wire Bead Making Tutorial for Beginners 

In this video we walk you through, step-by-step, the making of a Love Knot bead.
Love Knots can be used as any other bead to make earrings, bracelets, necklaces, or other items of jewelry. You can combine them with different beads, or you can make jewelry using only Love Knot beads.
We love the simplicity of the Love Knot and just how easy they are to make and use. We also like the way they can be slipped into so many different designs to add a new and interesting design element; an element that you can say you made yourself.
To make Love Knots you need only
• wire, 18 gauge (1.0 mm) in this example
• a round mandrel, 5 mm or 3/16 inch, (we used a knitting needle)
• a pair of wire cutters (we are using flush cutters because it gives a cleaner, or flush, cut)
• Chain nose pliers can be useful but are optional
• We also used some steel wool to clean the wire (000 or 0000 will work).
For those of you who prefer something you can have right in front of you while you work, we have a written tutorial available, for free, you can download from our website:
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And if you are looking for ideas on what you can make with your newfound, Love Knot making skills, we have another tutorial that covers using Love Knots to make earrings, a bracelet, and a necklace. It is available here:
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To learn to make Wire Wrapped loops as we used in the video to attach the Love Knot bead to the ear wire, we have a free written tutorial you can download here:
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And we also have a video on our RU-vid channel that shows you how to make wrapped loops.
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If you would like to learn more about making jewelry we have two books available on Amazon. Both are full of beginner-level projects to help you get started in jewelry making. We kept them downloadable and inexpensive so as many people as possible can give the many facets of jewelry making a try.
The first book covers basic stringing and can be found here:
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And in the second book we introduce the new jewelry maker to working with wire:
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There are lots of other jewelry-making kits, patterns, tutorials, and ideas on our website. Come visit and spend a little time browsing through our site.
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