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0:00:07.299,0:00:10.780 Hi this is megan with Beadaholique.com
I'm going to show you how
0:00:10.780,0:00:12.549 to use a bead loom.
0:00:12.549,0:00:14.059 And we have
0:00:14.059,0:00:19.039 two different options right now
available for bead looms. We have
0:00:19.039,0:00:21.260 this less expensive
0:00:21.260,0:00:22.659 BeadSmith beam loom
0:00:22.659,0:00:26.199 and then we have this really nice
wooden bead loom
0:00:26.199,0:00:27.529 and
0:00:27.529,0:00:29.130 assembled
0:00:29.130,0:00:30.890 this is the wooden bead loom
0:00:30.890,0:00:31.650 and it's
0:00:31.650,0:00:32.970 as you can see it's
0:00:32.970,0:00:33.990 quite a large
0:00:35.390,0:00:38.340 and
0:00:38.340,0:00:42.090 the metal one is quite a bit smaller
0:00:42.090,0:00:45.440 if you're just starting out you can
definitely start with
0:00:45.440,0:00:46.559 the smaller
0:00:46.559,0:00:52.090 less expensive bead loom. If you do a lot
of beadwork you might want to invest in
0:00:52.090,0:00:53.450 the wooden one
0:00:53.450,0:00:55.850 the main difference
0:00:55.850,0:00:59.630 as far as the size goes is you will be
able to make a much wider project
0:00:59.630,0:01:03.130 on a loom with a wider
0:01:03.130,0:01:05.600 area for the work threads
0:01:05.600,0:01:09.120 this loom you can only do your product
about that wide
0:01:09.120,0:01:13.270 so you can see how much more space you have
to work with here. The length is
0:01:13.270,0:01:17.299 not an issue
0:01:17.299,0:01:20.330 I'm mostly going to work with this one
0:01:20.330,0:01:22.299 but I will also show you
0:01:22.299,0:01:26.130 how it would be different
you're working with this one
0:01:26.130,0:01:31.140 So with the BeadSmith
0:01:31.140,0:01:34.130 loom
0:01:34.130,0:01:39.250 you also get instructions,
0:01:39.250,0:01:41.040 some seed beads,
0:01:42.460,0:01:45.620 thread, needle, and a needle threader
0:01:45.620,0:01:47.350 the needles that come with it
0:01:47.350,0:01:48.590 are
0:01:48.590,0:01:52.530 a little bit short and a little bit
thick and how wide
0:01:53.370,0:01:58.410 your work is you may want to use like
a size twelve beading needle
0:01:58.410,0:02:00.079 they would give you a little bit more length
0:02:00.079,0:02:05.570 to get through in one past you can also
use a big needle
0:02:05.570,0:02:08.009 which come in very long lengths and you
just
0:02:08.009,0:02:10.799 put the thread
0:02:10.799,0:02:12.869 the end and thighten
0:02:12.869,0:02:17.180 and this would allow you to get through
even a wider
0:02:17.180,0:02:20.879 piece of work in one passage. You don't
have to come out.
0:02:20.879,0:02:24.099 so there's two different ways to
0:02:24.099,0:02:26.059 thread them
0:02:26.059,0:02:30.090 and which the way you use will depend on
0:02:30.090,0:02:33.079 how long the piece. You're going to do
with this
0:02:33.079,0:02:35.509 if you're going to do it piece
0:02:35.509,0:02:36.609 that would fit
0:02:36.609,0:02:38.689 between the edges of your loom
0:02:38.689,0:02:43.159 then there's a really quick and easy way
to thread your loom
0:02:43.159,0:02:46.209 you would just tie your thread
0:02:46.209,0:02:49.389 to one of
0:02:49.389,0:02:56.389 the little nail head here
0:02:56.629,0:02:59.599 and then you start by deciding how wide
you're going to
0:02:59.599,0:03:02.229 have your piece be and you start
0:03:02.229,0:03:03.319 going
0:03:03.319,0:03:04.969 across the loom
0:03:04.969,0:03:09.209 around the nail head and back
0:03:09.209,0:03:13.209 and put your thread, one thread
between each
0:03:13.209,0:03:20.039 coil in the wire
0:03:20.039,0:03:22.699 and go back-and-forth
0:03:22.699,0:03:25.689 this is going to be, if you don't need to
0:03:25.689,0:03:27.149 have any extra thread
0:03:27.149,0:03:28.099 or slack
0:03:28.099,0:03:30.269 and you're going to work with this length
here
0:03:30.269,0:03:32.489 that's a really quick and easy way to do
it
0:03:32.489,0:03:36.929 however if you need it to be longer
0:03:36.929,0:03:40.709 then we have to do it a slightly different
way that's not quite as quick
0:03:40.709,0:03:43.459 but it's not too hard
0:03:43.459,0:03:44.980 so if you're going to
0:03:44.980,0:03:47.869 create a longer piece
0:03:47.869,0:03:49.409 you need to
0:03:49.409,0:03:52.739 do a slightly different method of
threading you loom
0:03:52.739,0:03:54.759 I actually switched
0:03:54.759,0:03:57.579 to Nymo nylon beading thread
for this
0:03:57.579,0:04:01.099 because you don't want to get it tangled up
and the cotton thread is
0:04:01.099,0:04:03.529 kind of tangily
0:04:03.529,0:04:06.329 so for this
0:04:06.329,0:04:10.159 your thread length need to be about two
feet longer than the piece that you're
0:04:10.159,0:04:12.870 going to create
0:04:12.870,0:04:14.729 and anytime that you
0:04:14.729,0:04:16.879 thread your loom you want
0:04:16.879,0:04:20.260 one more thread across than the number of
beads than you want
0:04:20.260,0:04:23.310 to use for the width of your piece
0:04:23.310,0:04:25.949 for the purposes of
0:04:25.949,0:04:29.419 this demonstration I'm only going to do
five beads across
0:04:29.419,0:04:30.509 so I only need
0:04:30.509,0:04:32.279 six
0:04:32.279,0:04:39.279 lengths of thread
0:04:41.639,0:04:45.260 so once you've measured
0:04:45.260,0:04:46.840 your strands
0:04:46.840,0:04:48.440 to go across
0:04:48.440,0:04:51.129 as you work threads
0:04:51.129,0:04:53.879 just go ahead and tie a knot on the end
0:04:53.879,0:05:00.879 and an overhand knot
0:05:01.129,0:05:03.360 then you're going to divide your threads in
half
0:05:03.360,0:05:06.119 just after the knot
0:05:06.119,0:05:06.999 so
0:05:06.999,0:05:11.169 I'm using six, I would just put three
each side
0:05:11.169,0:05:14.910 and divide that half
0:05:14.910,0:05:17.719 you're going to
0:05:17.719,0:05:21.150 put one half of you thread to either side
of the little nail head
0:05:21.150,0:05:23.750 you're going to go all the way down to the
other
0:05:23.750,0:05:25.620 end
0:05:25.620,0:05:32.620 and tie another knot on the end
0:05:34.069,0:05:35.150 and
0:05:35.150,0:05:36.249 take that split
0:05:36.249,0:05:40.160 in the thread
0:05:40.160,0:05:42.459 you're going to lay that
0:05:42.459,0:05:46.189 with one half of the thread to either side
0:05:46.189,0:05:48.429 put that on the nail head
0:05:48.429,0:05:52.430 you're going to loosen
0:05:52.430,0:05:54.060 the dowel here
0:05:54.060,0:06:01.060 and you just want to start rolling it
back
0:06:01.249,0:06:04.990 and as it rolls around it will tighten the
threads
0:06:04.990,0:06:06.469 across the loom
0:06:06.469,0:06:08.550 and you don't want to pull them super
tight because we still need to
0:06:08.550,0:06:11.629 redistribute them throughout the coils
0:06:11.629,0:06:14.729 just where it has a little bit of give left
0:06:14.729,0:06:16.819 tighten that up
0:06:16.819,0:06:19.539 and this part can be a little tricky
0:06:19.539,0:06:24.180 it helps to use a pair of tweezers
0:06:24.180,0:06:26.050 and you're gonna start
0:06:26.050,0:06:30.469 on the side of the loom that has the excess
tread on it
0:06:30.469,0:06:35.939 so that it doesn't get all twisted up
0:06:35.939,0:06:37.879 I'm gonna put
0:06:37.879,0:06:38.969 each
0:06:38.969,0:06:45.969 thread across into it's own coil
0:06:47.229,0:06:48.740 get them nice and flat
0:06:48.740,0:06:52.960 and then you're gonna carry each coil
each thread across
0:06:52.960,0:06:54.029 to
0:06:54.029,0:07:01.029 lay it in a coil on the other side of
the loom
0:07:03.180,0:07:09.300 it's getting a little twisted on this end.
That's not a problem
0:07:09.300,0:07:13.660 as long as it's straight across
0:07:13.660,0:07:17.599 it's a little to loose you can
0:07:17.599,0:07:20.600 pull this dowel a little tighter it will
0:07:20.600,0:07:27.600 stay in place
0:07:30.299,0:07:31.869 so
0:07:31.869,0:07:34.169 when you're all done placing those
0:07:34.169,0:07:36.039 go ahead and loosen up
0:07:36.039,0:07:37.729 that screw so that you can
0:07:37.729,0:07:41.110 pull your threads pulled across
0:07:41.110,0:07:45.199 and screw it back down nice and tight so
that they don't move on their own
0:07:45.199,0:07:46.680 when you're ready to work
0:07:46.680,0:07:50.229 you should have your threads evenly
spaced spanning
0:07:50.229,0:07:52.269 across
0:07:52.269,0:07:53.930 you're loom like that
0:07:53.930,0:07:55.889 so to thread
0:07:55.889,0:07:59.069 this style of loom it doesn't have the little
nail heads
0:07:59.069,0:08:00.889 what it has instead is a bar
0:08:00.889,0:08:03.449 that fits
0:08:03.449,0:08:05.439 into this dowel
0:08:05.439,0:08:07.719 so you would thread this
0:08:07.719,0:08:10.680 by laying your threads across
0:08:10.680,0:08:12.559 and then using
0:08:12.559,0:08:13.800 the bar
0:08:13.800,0:08:15.019 to secure them
0:08:15.019,0:08:17.190 so you wouldn't be able to do the super quick
0:08:17.190,0:08:18.849 method on this one
0:08:18.849,0:08:20.569 just going around the nail head
0:08:20.569,0:08:22.359 you would just need to cut
0:08:22.359,0:08:24.889 lengths for this
0:08:24.889,0:08:26.809 lay them across
0:08:26.809,0:08:28.520 put the bar down and secure them
0:08:28.520,0:08:30.900 and then it's is the same principle of
0:08:30.900,0:08:31.949 loosen that
0:08:31.949,0:08:35.200 through and turn this to tight it
0:08:35.200,0:08:38.530 next thing you gonna do
0:08:38.530,0:08:40.850 is cut a length of thread
0:08:40.850,0:08:45.010 as long as you're comfortable working
with
0:08:45.010,0:08:46.109 you can always
0:08:46.109,0:08:47.300 tie off
0:08:47.300,0:08:49.800 and add your thread later
0:08:49.800,0:08:53.670 and we do have an instructional video on
how to do that
0:08:53.670,0:09:00.670 also if you're not familiar on how to do
that
0:09:01.240,0:09:02.910 so go ahead and
0:09:02.910,0:09:05.890 pull the thread through your needle, leave
yourself a
0:09:05.890,0:09:09.920 tail on one side
0:09:09.920,0:09:14.350 and then for the purposes of the demonstration
I'm gonna use the beads that came with this
0:09:14.350,0:09:18.480 loom
0:09:18.480,0:09:22.700 little note about the size of the
beads your using
0:09:22.700,0:09:23.780 the looms are
0:09:23.780,0:09:26.679 really fast and easy to use
0:09:26.679,0:09:28.060 when the beads
0:09:28.060,0:09:31.890 are about the size between your threads
0:09:31.890,0:09:33.870 and you'll notice that this
0:09:33.870,0:09:37.990 this little has a little bit larger
space between the coils
0:09:37.990,0:09:41.200 than this one does. So this one will
probably be a little bit more suited to
0:09:41.200,0:09:44.190 smaller beadwork
0:09:44.190,0:09:46.460 so you can use
0:09:46.460,0:09:48.480 beads that are smaller
0:09:48.480,0:09:49.730 than
0:09:49.730,0:09:52.390 the width between your threads
0:09:52.390,0:09:55.860 when you pull it tight it will just
condense the width
0:09:55.860,0:09:58.860 it can just take a little bit
longer to
0:09:58.860,0:10:02.160 get each bead in where you want it to go.
When they're about to right width they just
0:10:02.160,0:10:04.400 pop right in between the thread
0:10:04.400,0:10:09.020 just something to keep in mind
0:10:09.020,0:10:11.860 so I have six threads
0:10:11.860,0:10:16.770 that's enough room for five beads so I'm going
to go ahead and start by picking up
0:10:16.770,0:10:18.570 five beads on my needle
0:10:18.570,0:10:20.330 I'm not gonna do this in any
0:10:20.330,0:10:21.900 pattern for
0:10:21.900,0:10:23.540 the demonstration
0:10:23.540,0:10:27.330 just keep in mind if you do want to
use a pattern
0:10:27.330,0:10:32.010 they usually are shown on a grid
0:10:32.010,0:10:35.700 they have a little couple patterns on
the instructions here
0:10:35.700,0:10:38.590 they also have some
0:10:38.590,0:10:40.190 graph paper which
0:10:40.190,0:10:43.840 I scribble on it already trying to test out
a pattern
0:10:44.910,0:10:46.610 or if you're following instructions from
0:10:46.610,0:10:51.580 a different project or pattern
they would usually involve a grid like that
0:10:51.580,0:10:53.470 and you just work
0:10:53.470,0:10:55.070 along
0:10:55.070,0:10:56.780 the strips of the grid
0:10:56.780,0:10:58.200 as you go
0:10:58.200,0:11:01.130 where you can make up your own as you
go well
0:11:01.130,0:11:03.400 I'm going to put them in randomly
0:11:03.400,0:11:08.150 just to show you how the loom works
0:11:08.150,0:11:09.690 start by
0:11:09.690,0:11:12.950 pulling your thread and needle
0:11:12.950,0:11:15.580 under the strings of the loom
0:11:15.580,0:11:18.360 take the pad of your finger
0:11:18.360,0:11:21.420 underneath your beads
0:11:21.420,0:11:22.380 you just
0:11:22.380,0:11:25.590 push them up
0:11:25.590,0:11:27.850 from below
0:11:27.850,0:11:29.070 through strings
0:11:29.070,0:11:31.180 and you see with the beads
0:11:31.180,0:11:32.600 the size
0:11:32.600,0:11:36.360 that fits just in there. They pop right
through the threads
0:11:36.360,0:11:39.810 if you have smaller ones you will need
to kind of help them along
0:11:39.810,0:11:42.420 this is super easy when they are the
right
0:11:42.420,0:11:47.140 length and you want to pull your thread until
you have
0:11:47.140,0:11:51.190 about a six to eight inch tail on the
0:11:51.190,0:11:55.020 and then you're gonna take your needle and
you're going to go back
0:11:55.020,0:11:58.290 through the way you came
0:11:58.290,0:12:00.720 the big key
0:12:00.720,0:12:03.170 important thing to remember here is that
0:12:03.170,0:12:06.620 you got your needle and thread
underneath the work threads on your
0:12:06.620,0:12:08.010 way that way
0:12:08.010,0:12:08.989 you need to go
0:12:08.989,0:12:09.899 above
0:12:09.899,0:12:12.260 the work threads on the way back. So they're
going
0:12:12.260,0:12:13.870 through the beads again
0:12:13.870,0:12:16.290 but you need to make sure that you
0:12:16.290,0:12:19.250 needle is above every one of these threads
0:12:19.250,0:12:25.140 otherwise the beads will fall out
0:12:25.140,0:12:28.660 and
0:12:28.660,0:12:35.090 gonna leave this tail and just it tie off
and weave it in later
0:12:35.090,0:12:35.980 and now
0:12:35.980,0:12:40.440 you're ready to do the next row
0:12:40.440,0:12:47.440 just pick up five more beads
0:12:47.510,0:12:53.980 put your needle back under
0:12:53.980,0:12:59.040 and push them through
0:12:59.040,0:13:03.670 bring your needle back
0:13:03.670,0:13:07.000 just like that
0:13:07.000,0:13:09.000 your work will spread out a little bit
0:13:09.000,0:13:11.340 you can just use the side of the needle
0:13:11.340,0:13:13.620 kind of push them together
0:13:13.620,0:13:14.970 make them nice and
0:13:14.970,0:13:17.460 straight
0:13:17.460,0:13:20.370 within spaces between them
0:13:20.370,0:13:24.210 and you can just keep working
0:13:24.210,0:13:31.210 until it gets as long as you want
0:13:33.600,0:13:34.959 just for every row
0:13:34.959,0:13:39.060 bring your thread under
0:13:39.060,0:13:43.480 push the beads into they're space
0:13:43.480,0:13:47.310 and bring the needle back
0:13:47.310,0:13:50.380 and if you bring it back over and the bead
falls out
0:13:50.380,0:13:53.140 that means that you didn't get the needle
0:13:53.140,0:13:54.279 over
0:13:54.279,0:13:55.760 your work threads
0:13:55.760,0:13:57.080 so you just need to take
0:13:57.080,0:13:59.220 to pick the row out
0:13:59.220,0:14:01.950 do that row all over again
0:14:01.950,0:14:05.330 when you're going to use the extra
access of your thread to make your piece
0:14:05.330,0:14:06.810 longer
0:14:06.810,0:14:08.100 you actually,
0:14:08.100,0:14:10.980 I didn't do this the right way, you
actually want to work
0:14:10.980,0:14:14.880 towards your extra thread
0:14:14.880,0:14:17.210 if you're gonna work left
to right
0:14:17.210,0:14:18.139 you would want
0:14:18.139,0:14:19.550 to have your hundred extra thread
0:14:19.550,0:14:20.600 on the right
0:14:20.600,0:14:21.579 not on the left
0:14:21.579,0:14:25.200 if you want to work right to left then you
put it on the left
0:14:25.200,0:14:29.540 if you're working across this way
0:14:29.540,0:14:32.470 and you get to the end here and you want more
thread
0:14:32.470,0:14:36.510 you loosen up
0:14:36.510,0:14:40.110 both of the screws a little bit
0:14:40.110,0:14:44.010 and you turn the last one and the right
one towards each other and you can see
0:14:44.010,0:14:48.530 that it advances your work over
0:14:48.530,0:14:50.580 and you keep working
0:14:50.580,0:14:52.930 and if you want it really long if can pop
up
0:14:52.930,0:14:56.110 over there as long as the
beads on the end will keep it
0:14:56.110,0:14:57.160 straight
0:14:57.160,0:14:59.890 just remember that when you're done
moving
0:14:59.890,0:15:01.060 the dowels
0:15:01.060,0:15:06.500 that you tighten them back up so that
it stays nice and taut
0:15:06.500,0:15:07.670 beadwork
0:15:07.670,0:15:10.170 that you do on a loom
0:15:10.170,0:15:14.010 does usually need to be mounted onto
something else
0:15:14.010,0:15:15.160 so
0:15:15.160,0:15:16.890 and that is because
0:15:16.890,0:15:18.140 when you're done
0:15:18.140,0:15:19.850 with this beadwork
0:15:19.850,0:15:22.430 you can tie off your
0:15:22.430,0:15:24.960 width threads, these threads here that
go
0:15:24.960,0:15:26.110 this way with
0:15:26.110,0:15:27.770 you can tie them off and weave them in
0:15:27.770,0:15:30.890 but your work threads are between
0:15:30.890,0:15:32.280 each bead
0:15:32.280,0:15:36.250 and it would be really bulky on the
ends to have all that trying to weave back
0:15:36.250,0:15:40.230 in. So usually what you do when you're
done with a piece of the bead weaving
0:15:40.230,0:15:41.500 off of a loom
0:15:41.500,0:15:45.920 is you cut it off of the loom
0:15:45.920,0:15:48.250 and you take these treads
0:15:48.250,0:15:49.730 and you tuck them
0:15:49.730,0:15:53.900 behind
0:15:53.900,0:15:55.560 and you would either
0:15:55.560,0:15:58.670 tape them in place or a glue them in place
0:15:58.670,0:16:01.120 to keep them
0:16:01.120,0:16:03.130 in one place. I usually will
0:16:03.130,0:16:04.910 glue them down
0:16:04.910,0:16:10.220 you glue then down and then you glue this
onto a foundation
0:16:10.220,0:16:12.500 and then all you see on the top
0:16:12.500,0:16:16.310 is the bead weaving. You don't see all those
messy threads on the back
0:16:16.310,0:16:17.760 and that is how you use a bead loom
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