I need a little help finding and selecting "string" to restring some pearls.
I've done a bit of stringing in the past but there was a local bead supply store back then and they told me what I needed. They've gone out of business so now I'm on my own with no knowledge.
The beads I'm trying to string were once a multistrand pearl bracelet. I'm turning them into a pearl necklace, expecting to knot between each bead. The hole in the pearls is very small, less than .5m (the smallest diameter I can measure with my crude tools) and much smaller than the semi-precious stones I've done in the past.
Questions: - what size string/thread do I need and where can I buy it ? - will I be able to simply pass the string through each bead as I did before without difficulty or is this going to be exceedingly difficult to ? - where's a good supplier for limited (very small) quantities of semi precious beads and 14K gold balls if I decide to put accent pieces in ?
Thanks, Bob