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Bead Clasp

Making your own Bead Clasp with Loop for a unique finish

Making your own Bead Clasp will be essential for those times when you really want to just make your own clasp to give your project the perfect finish. This is especially so when you have employed decorative knotting in your jewellery piece, as for example, with the flat Reef Knot Strand.

These steps here carries on as if you have done some kind of decorative knotting technique like the Reef Knot Strand and are now wanting to finish off with your own bead fastener.

One End: Bead Clasp

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1) As you near the end of your decorative knotting, and are ready for adding your fastener, string on your chosenn bead/button that you will use as your bead-clasp.

If you have been working with 4 threads, you can use the 2 center threads to string on your end bead. You then neatly weave the thread back into your main strand.

If you have only been working with 2 strands of thread, you can cut yoursel a length of matching thread, string on your end-bead and weave the new thread back into the main decorative knotted strand.

Either case, leave a bit of space between the end-bead and the knotted strand.

Then continue with some more of the same decorative knots as you were doing, using the balance 2 strand. Knot over the threads between your bead-clasp and the original knotted-strand.

Finish off by using a needle to work each thread invisibly into your strand. Trim off any loose ends.

Other End: Loop for the Bead Clasp

Now we will create a loop at the other end. This loop will go round the end bead that you just made.
1) At the other end, add another piece of thread to your original core threads. Make it a sufficiently long length as we will be making a row of "buttonholing stitches" to form your loop.
2) With your new thread, make a loop over your core threads. Bring one end of the new thread under the core and back up through the loop. Pull tightly. 3) Continue in this way creating your "buttonholing stitches" till you have a length that is sufficient to form a loop that will go over your bead-clasp.	(Click to view more details)
4) Turn your "buttonholing sticthes" section back towards the main piece of your work. Align it along the main knotted section.
5) Using your core threads, continue with your main decorative knotting over all these threads. Finish off as you did the other side.	(Click to view more details)

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