Bags embroidered with beads

Bags embroidered with beads can become not only a fashion accessory that complements an evening or casual look. This is a great way to show your imagination and decorate your favorite handbag with your own hands. Moreover, this type of needlework has remained relevant for many years.

Beads are tiny multi-colored beads that can be used to decorate clothes, shoes, and accessories.

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

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

• overflowing (almost opaque material, aged in pastel colors and covered with glitter);
• natural (frosted glass beads, not covered with glitter);
• metal (glass is covered with paint "like metal").

In addition to the above types of beads, there are striped, marble, iridescent, iridescent, 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. Largely due to this, bags embroidered with beads are so popular and never go out of fashion.

Embroidery is one of the favorite women's hobbies. This is painstaking work that requires a certain amount of attention, time and patience, but the result exceeds the wildest expectations. Sparkling or iridescent multicolored canvas, adorned with tiny beads, transforms even the most ordinary shopping bag into a fashion accessory.

The history of this handicraft is rooted in ancient Phenicia. About 6 thousand years ago, the first glass pebbles appeared, vaguely resembling modern beads. According to historical data, these stones were obtained by accident by sailors transporting soda. At one of the overnight stays, they laid it out around the fire and left it overnight. The next morning, the sailors found glazed stones in an extinct fire.

With the development of glass craft, beads became more and more 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, they began to use it for embroidery of church icons.

Today embroidery with multi-colored glass beads or other types of beads is a very popular and demanded type of needlework. A fairly simple embroidery technique helps to effectively decorate a child's handbag, youth backpack, evening clutch. All the conditions have been created for this today: a variety of 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. Knitted or crocheted fabric of wool, cotton, acrylic, bamboo, linen, viscose goes well with delicate, beautiful embroidery. These handbags always look very impressive. Beads can completely cover the surface of a bag or some part of it, decorate a strap, or be used to decorate a fringe.

The situation is more complicated with dense materials: suede, natural and artificial leather, drape. In such cases, it is best to embroider not on the bag itself, but on a thin piece of fabric, which you can then simply sew 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, thanks to their relief, volume, color changing under the rays of the sun. Moreover, such 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 you have little experience, then it is better to use the embroidery pattern printed on the canvas. A kit with a blank for embroidery and the necessary beads can be purchased at a specialized store. All that is required from the craftswoman is, strictly adhering to the scheme, to embroider the picture.

For the first experience to be successful, you must follow a few simple rules:

1. The threads for embroidery are matched to the canvas. For a black base, you can pick up a thread to match 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 half-cross. In this case, the tilt should be performed only in one direction, then the beads will lay down evenly and tightly.
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 starting work, you need to prepare everything you need:

• bugles of different colors;
• special needles for embroidery. They differ from ordinary ones in thickness and a small ear;
• nylon, nylon thread or fishing line.

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

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

In order to make and decorate an original accessory with your own hands, you will need a cloth bag, scissors, beads of different colors and a waxed thread. When working with an ornament, it is worth remembering one of the rules of embroidery: it is advisable to place large stones or beads in the center of the embroidery. They set the basic tone and character of the finished product. It is better to fill in gaps and gaps with small beads.

You should not use a large number of shades at once, it is enough to take at least 3-4 colors. For embroidery, a back stitch or a pin stitch is usually used.

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

When choosing the right color scheme for the finished bag, you can use the principle of contrast. For example, light gray leatherette will go well with embroidery with black and white beads.

A 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 choose a material of white, turquoise, black, gray, gold or transparent beads.

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