Thread bracelets

Very often on the hot summer streets you can see girls and boys who wear bright bracelets made of threads on their wrists. These ornaments are called baubles and consist of threads woven by knotting and other methods, which are connected to each other to create a single decoration.

Baubles symbolize friendship, peace and love, because it is not for nothing that the name of this wonderful bracelet in English sounds like "Friendship bracelet" and has a literal translation of "friendship bracelet".

The centuries-old history of woven bracelets began thanks to the Indians of North America, who had a tradition of putting ropes woven together in a certain way on the hands of friends and relatives. Such bracelets were associated with friendly relations: prolonged wearing indicated a strong friendship, a rope specially removed from the hand meant a public insult and the end of a good relationship. The Indians took care of their traditions and various ways of weaving such bracelets were passed down from generation to generation, as one of the shrines.

Such decorations were used by the ancient Slavs, who wove natural motifs into the ornament of the bracelet to protect a person and his home from evil spirits and the favorable mood of the Slavic gods.

In the 60s of the last century, a certain way of life, whose representatives were called hippies, became a trendy youth trend all over the world. They adhered to the principle of "peace and love to all", and bracelets made of knitted threads became the hallmark of this subculture. Baubles have gained additional meaning: pairs of people in love with each other wore the same accessories, and some of the patterns and colors of the threads could tell the biography of a person.

Such bracelets were passed from hand to hand, thus traveling around the world. It was believed that these bracelets attract good luck and guarantee safety in the process of hitchhiking, which was trendy at that time. Baubles were even a certain bargaining unit and often they paid for travel to drivers of a ride.

Over time, the hippie cult was lost, but baubles are considered a fashion accessory today. These bracelets can be seen on the wrists of young fashionistas and secular ladies, which give their image individuality, brightness and vigor.

The bracelet made of threads has many varieties. Consider the most popular.

• Friendship Bracelet. This type of bracelets is woven in various ways from floss. The most common of them is to tie a skein of threads with one worker and tighten it with a loop. To create jewelry, you will need to spend some time and effort, but such a process gives the body strong energy and perfectly calms.
• Shamballa bracelet represents a different interweaving of threads and beads.This jewelry has a thousand-year history and plays the role of a certain talisman that protects the wearer of the jewelry from evil otherworldly forces and attracts good luck and health.
• Jewelry-amulet consists not only of beads and threads, but also various shells, pendants, coins, natural stones and other things that the future owner likes or is connected with him by a common history. Otherwise, it will not bring the expected effect. When creating an amulet, it is necessary to cleanse the mind and soul of negative thoughts and desires, get enough of the natural energy of the sun, wind and water and weave an ornament, filling it with your love, inner peace and desire for all the best.

When weaving baubles, you should carefully choose the color of the threads, since each of them has its own philosophy, a certain meaning and effect on the wearer.

• White symbolizes innocence, purity and purity. Baubles with a predominant white color are worn by freedom-loving people with faith in truth and justice. Such bracelets have a certain power of light, faith and independence.
• Blue - calmness and harmony, openness and tranquility, love for higher powers and friendliness to everyone around. Such baubles help to find friends and good luck on long journeys.
• Green - life, nature, youth and strength. It gives hope, spiritual harmony, helps to find love and gain faith.
• Red symbolizes passion, blood and fire. Helps in love affairs and gives vitality and joy from being.
• Black - this color was woven into their bracelets by lovers of magic, witchcraft and the supernatural. Gives strong energy, fearlessness and independence.
• Pink speaks of dreaminess and some infantilism.It has the property of caring for mental balance and external beauty.
• Orange - this color is woven in order to increase vitality, positive mood and sexual desire.
• Blue - the color of wisdom, tranquility and harmony. Gives strength and self-confidence.
• Yellow attracts good luck and good mood.
• Violet - a thread of this color indicates the wisdom and originality of the individual. Develops imagination and creativity.
• Brown - the color of stability, family and prosperity. It will help to find true friends and acquire strong family ties.

The main condition for the presence of a certain energy and mystical properties of such a talisman is sincere enjoyment of the result.

Regardless of whether a person believes in the special power of bracelets woven from threads or not, baubles are a stylish and original decoration that can complete an ethnic style in clothing or airiness and lightness of a summer look. In addition, the “hand made” direction is trendy at the present time, so a handmade bauble will serve as an excellent gift for a loved one. According to giving, such a gift should be tied on the recipient’s hand on their own and tie three knots for fixation, making a wish on the third.

In order to weave beautiful baubles with complex patterns and from different materials, you need to learn the basics: master the basic knots and learn how to read weaving patterns.

Consider the easiest and most common ways and materials for self-weaving bracelets.

• From floss.

Weaving floss baubles is one of the simplest and most common. There are 2 main types of weaving: oblique - the result is a pattern in the form of arrows, herringbones or braids, and straight - more complex and consisting of various shapes, patterns or words.

Based on an expanded list of types of weaving, floss baubles are divided into several types.

1. Peacock - Bright colors and a special weaving technique create a beautiful bracelet with a pattern reminiscent of a peacock's tail.
2. Arrow - one of the simplest and most common weaving options when using a maximum of four thread colors.
3. Pigtail - is woven in various ways, but the result is a beautiful and bright pattern that resembles a pigtail.
4. peruvian wave - an insanely beautiful pattern resembling a sea wave. Products with this pattern are ideal for use as a belt or headband.
5. Ladder - quite voluminous weaving for the most sophisticated lovers of baubles.
6. Lattice - a spectacular way of weaving in the form of a mesh.
7. Zigzag - an original and intricate pattern for lovers of exclusivity and individuality.

It is necessary to take the floss colors you like, fix and immobilize one end. Ethis can be done in one of the ways, based on the devices at hand.

1. Fasten the clerical clip on the book, arrange the necessary threads and press firmly with the clip.
2. Knot the threads and hang on a sewing pin, attaching the latter in a convenient place.
3. Glue the ends of the threads with transparent tape to the countertop or other surface.
4. Fasten the threads to the report tablet holder.

After that, you need to tie all the threads with a knot in one bundle, and then divide it into three equal parts. Weave these parts into one pigtail of the required length. You need to weave carefully, slowly, with positive thoughts in your head. You can quietly hum or listen to your favorite music. After the pigtail has reached the required parameters, you should again tie the threads into one bundle, cut off the excess length (leaving a small piece to fix the baubles on your wrist) and enjoy the result.

You can make a rather original jewelry in a different, less easy way: cut a bracelet-length strip from a plastic bottle and wrap it with floss, fixing the ends with glue and attaching the fittings to securely fix them on your wrist.

• From threads for knitting.

Baubles can be woven from ordinary knitting threads. For this process, natural, artificial, synthetic, thick, woolen or any other will do.

You can weave a bracelet by analogy with weaving floss, or you can approach the process from the other side and create a unique crochet decoration from two threads at once. This method is especially relevant for those who have knitting experience.

Consider step by step the easiest and easiest way to crochet baubles.

1. Create a simple loop on the thread and thread the crochet hook through it.
2. Grab the thread and crochet through the loop.
3. Tighten the loop.
4. Wrap the thread around the base of the hook.
5. Continue cyclically repeating these steps until you get a bracelet of the required length.
6. Tie a knot, remove the unnecessary length of the tip.

• From thin threads.

Weaving from thin threads requires not only accuracy and creativity, but also perseverance, since a small thickness and many knots delay this process.But the result is worth it: some craftsmen create real and almost weightless masterpieces from thin threads.

A personalized bauble can be an original gift or serve as a kind of business card.

First you need to create a scheme for writing a name by analogy with a scheme for embroidery. To do this, use a pencil and a sheet of paper in a box or a special computer program.

1. Color in the cells that correspond to the letters of the name, based on the principle of "one cell - one thread."
2. Determine the free margin so that the label is in the middle.
3. Count the number of cells horizontally at the rate of "1 cm of decoration = 5 rows".
4. The number of cells must be divided by 5 - the length of the name is obtained.
5. Measure your wrist and determine the name in the middle of this length.

A bauble with a name is woven in three variants of knots:

1. right - circle the left thread over the stretched right and tighten,
2. left - the same action, only mirrored vice versa,
3. corner - the same, only skip the thread from below.

To create it, you need to take 8 threads of one color and 5 of another. They need to be laid out and fixed in the form - 3 + 8 + 2. The first thread should be 3-4 times longer.

The knots should be made with a long thread and tightened tightly for a beautiful look of the letters. Further weaving is explained in detail by the diagram.

• Macrame.

Macrame - the technique of knot weaving of various materials: fishing line, linen rope, twine or any other threads. Baubles made using this technique are incredibly beautiful, but quite difficult to create, especially if they consist of 4 or more different threads.

There are many different patterns for weaving jewelry, including bracelets - macrame. Below is one of them, following which you can create an exclusive and accessory that will suit any stylish look.

• With added beads

Bracelets made of threads and beads look quite advantageous compared to others. There are dozens of ways to create such jewelry, let's look at some of them.

1. Buy cute beads and a simple bracelet in the store. Wrap beads with beautiful yarn to the bracelet in random order.
2. Add a few beads to the thread in the process of weaving baubles, for example, "pigtails".
3. Weave an elegant shambhala bracelet, which is designed not only to decorate, but also to protect against various adversities, attracting good luck and vitality.