Beaded bags

Bags embroidered with beads can become not only a fashion accessory complementing the evening or everyday look. This is a great way to express 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 multi-colored beads with which you can decorate clothes, shoes, accessories.

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

• bugles (colored glass tubes, which may have different sizes, shapes and lengths);
• brocade (transparent glass beads, the opening of which is painted in golden or silver paint);
• Chameleon (beads made of multi-colored glass are covered with paint in the area of ​​the contrasting hole);

• pouring (almost opaque material, aged in pastel colors and covered with shine);
• natural (glitter-free frosted glass beads);
• metal (the glass is covered with paint "for metal").

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

Embroidery is one of women's favorite hobbies. This is painstaking work that requires some attention, time and patience, but the result exceeds the wildest expectations. Sparkling or iridescent multi-colored fabric, decorated with tiny beads, turns even the most ordinary shopping bag into a fashion accessory.

The history of this needlework goes back to ancient Phenicia. About 6 thousand years ago, the first glass pebbles appeared, vaguely reminiscent of modern beads. According to historical data, these stones were obtained quite by accident by sailors transporting soda. At one of the lodging for the night, they laid her around the fire and left her for the night. The next morning, sailors found glazed stones in an extinct fire.

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 great secret, and therefore every thing embroidered with beads was truly exclusive.

In ancient Russia, festive, expensive clothes were decorated with pearl beads. Around the 18th 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 popular type of needlework. A fairly simple embroidery technique helps to effectively decorate a children's handbag, youth backpack, evening clutch. For this, all conditions have been created today: the many proposed patterns for embroidery, a huge selection of materials and your own imagination.

Knitted handbags are the most popular option for decorating with colored beads. The canvas, knitted or crocheted from wool, cotton, acrylic, bamboo, linen, viscose, goes well with delicate, beautiful embroidery. Such handbags 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.

More difficult is the situation with dense materials: it is suede, natural and artificial leather, drap. In such cases, it is best to embroider not on the bag itself, but on a thin piece of cloth, which can then 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 their relief, volume, color changing under the rays of the sun. In addition, this 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 little: the necessary materials and perseverance.

If the experience is small, it is better to use the embroidery pattern applied to the canvas. A kit with a blank for embroidery and the necessary beads can be purchased at a specialized store. From the craftswoman will only need to strictly adhere to the scheme, embroider the picture.

In order for the first experience to turn out successful, you need to follow a few simple rules:

1. Threads for embroidery are selected in the tone of the canvas. To the black base, you can pick up a thread to match the beads or fishing line.
2. The length of the thread should be about 5 times the width of the finished embroidery row.
3. The easiest way to embroider is a semi-cross. In this case, the slope should be performed only in one direction, then the beads will lie flat and tight.
4. It is better to store the beads 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 eye;
• nylon, nylon thread or fishing line.

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

If embroidery decorates an evening clutch or an elegant handbag, then it is best to use plain or transparent beads. So the ornament will look more elegant.

In order to make and decorate the original accessory with your own hands, you will need a cloth bag, scissors, beads of different colors and a waxed thread. When working with ornaments, 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 use a large number of shades at once, just take at least 3-4 colors. For embroidery, a back-to-back stitch or a “fasten” stitch is usually used.

Beadwork is an original way to decorate and renew your old favorite bag. But this is easiest to do if the accessory is made of denim, textile, linen, cotton and other lightweight materials. You can decorate bags from more dense materials, for example, leather, suede or leatherette, by first embroidering on a small piece of fabric, and then gluing it directly to the bag.

Choosing the right color scheme for the finished bag, you can use the principle of contrast. For example, light gray leatherette will blend perfectly 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 select material in white, turquoise, black, gray, golden color or transparent beads.

For example, a blue suede handbag will be an excellent base for embroidery in soft pink and green colors. An orange accessory will effectively decorate purple and green beads; for a pink handbag, embroidery in purple, turquoise, white or black is suitable.