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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and I want to show you how to wrap a bangle
bracelet in silk ribbon and add embellishments. I have an example here and
this is what actually inspired me to do this video
was I was making this piece of jewelry here which has kind of a
moroccan indian feel to it and I just really wanted to bring in the
textile element of the silk
into the design and I wasn't sure how to do it and and I ended up
wrapping a bangle bracelet which this one is here by Nunn Designs
and adding these little vintage Rivolis to it as well. These little pendants
I want to show you how to do that
so you're gonna need
a bangle
some silk ribbon
and the yardage that you need is really going to be dependent on
how much you really want to wrap this. There's a couple different ways of doing it
I'm starting with forty two inches and then I've got these little Rivoli
pendant links that I'm going to use. So to begin
go ahead
and actually
do a simple
overhand knot
your just anchoring
your silk
to your bangle
that was just a simple knot
take the silk and we're going to wind it
around the bangle and now you can decide if you want to do big
wide winds were you show some of the metal
between your wrappings or do you do tight
wind where it'll make the entire bracelet look like it's covered in silk
that's actually what I want to do. I'm just going to
go over and under threading it
through the interior hole of the bracelet
wrapping it around the side
keeping it fairly tight
keep doing this all the way around
and I'm doing this with a silk ribbon
you don't have to do with the silk ribbon. You can do it with any other type
of ribbon, a strip of fabric, you can have the frayed ends
show, you can do it
with whatever
type of textile you like just make sure you have enough length to start with
because it would be hard to tie on another extended length later
so I'm trying to not
twist the ribbon like this as a wind it. I'm trying to just
wind it always with the same side
going in and out and over
it's not
perfect, there's some gaps that are larger and some smaller but I actually really like
that nice organic look
I'm almost at the starting point
at this point you have again some more options
you can either just tie your two ends together
put a little bit of E6000 glue in your knot. So you would knot it and
trim your ends really tight
you would just have a silk wrapped bangle
but I want to show you what I did here in this bracelet example where I added these
little Rivolis
so I'm just gonna go over
where I first started. Go right over that knot
and now
I want to
add a little link
take
the end and thread it on my ribbon
and it helps that my ribbon happens to have a point to it
slide
the link on
scoot it down
until it rests up
against your bangle
just like so
I'll do another wrapping
I'm just going over my old wrappings
and then when I want to add another one
do the same thing
slide it all the way down
again
continue with my wrapping
you can add as many or as few of these as you want
just depending upon
how much silk you have available and how many
pendants you have
I'm just putting them
every inch or inch in a half
that's going to be a little hard to go through. I'm going to grab a tool here. I have a
crochet hook
a toothpick or a piece of wire
any little thing that allows you to poke it through that if you are doing the same project
that I'm doing
I'll add one more so I've got five
keep in mind where you started
Pretty easy to see that tail
keep winding until your two tails meet
you're going to create
another
overhand knot
so those are secure. What you can do now
is you can either
just go ahead and put a little bit of glue in there before you cinch that
down
I'm not sure if I want to do more to this project so I'm not gonna secure it here
Wanted to show you the technique in the video
or you can cut
a little bit further out which is like what I did here in this bracelet and I
purposely frayed the edges. I wanted
this to look like antique or vintage silver. So I wanted it to kind of have
more of a rustic appeal to it
so those are two different ways you can finish it. Trimming it up tight to it
cutting a little further
or even if you want you can tie a bow with your ribbon tails
and have a little bit more of a feminine look as well
so that is how you cover a
bangle using a silk ribbon.
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