Once you read the previous tutorials about how to bead necklaces, you may already master the basic skills necessary to set about more complicated beading projects. In today’s inspiration project, I will show you how to bead necklaces with normal glass beads and the Tibetan Style Pendants which is commonly used in earrings making projects. From now on, keep your attention here.

Choose beads for making beaded necklaces:

Round Faceted Glass Bead

Abacus Faceted Glass Bead

Opaque 8/0 Glass Seed Bead

Tibetan Style Pendant

Leaf-shape Tibetan Silver Pendant

Bead Cap

Iron Bead Tip

Iron Spacer Bead

Brass Headpin

Iron Eyepin

Tiger Tail

Assisted tools for making beaded necklaces:

Side Cutting Plier

Wire-Cutter Plier

Round Nose Plier

How to bead necklaces of national customs?

Step1: Assemble beads with proper pins

As my ideal necklace is a glass bead necklace, so I select the glass beads as main materials of my necklace. String the beads with proper pins for the following groups:

Group1: Opaque 8/0 Glass Seed Bead*2, Round Faceted Glass Bead*1, Leaf-shape Tibetan Silver Pendant*1, Iron Eyepin*1; (1 group needed)

Group2: Opaque 8/0 Glass Seed Bead*2, Abacus Faceted Glass Bead*1, Leaf-shape Tibetan Silver Pendant*1, Iron Eyepin*1; (4 groups needed)

Group3: Abacus Faceted Glass Bead*1, Brass Headpin*1. (1 group needed)

Step2: Make the main pendant of glass bead necklace

Firstly, hang group3 at the inner ring of top.

The next is the group1 and group2. On the edge of Tibetan Style Pendant, there are five loops to place the 5 five groups; group1 at the center and the rest four beside it.

Step3: How to bead necklaces

When finish the main pendant of the glass bead necklace, other rest work is to make the “chain” of the necklace. String the beads into one strand and add two Iron Bead Tips on both wire tips.

The strand is comprised of one 70cm tiger tail wire and an array of glass beads and 8/0 Glass Seed Beads. The order is:

To the starting part and ending part, make group of Bead Cap*2 and Round Faceted Glass Bead *1; then five groups of Opaque 8/0 Glass Seed Bead*2 and Round Faceted Glass Bead *1;

To the rest part are several groups of Opaque 8/0 Glass Seed Bead*2 and Abacus Faceted Glass Bead*1;

At last, attach two Iron Bead Tips to the wire with 2 iron spacer beads.

Step4: Finish the glass bead necklace making project

Hook the Iron Bead Tips to the hole upon the Tibetan Style Pendant and then pinch them with Wire-Cutter Plier, afterwards a glass bead necklace along with strong exotic feeling produced.

Have you grasped the project about how to bead necklaces of national customs yet? While relaxing on a beach, the custom glass bead necklace perfectly matches your long dress; under the bright sunshine, you will find that the beads set off your dress fulfilled with nationalistic style; their glitters like a kind of innocent smiles, attract breeze sounds and grass color; and which make you become one part of the beautiful scenery.