Restringing necklace -- length increase?

Not necessarily. Knots add a little to the length, but unless the coral beads are inordinately tiny, knotting won't double the length. Personally, I don't think that it would add to the appearance or durability of coral, so I wouldn't knot the necklace in any case.

I made a coral necklace last year with pearls and 2mm 14K beads and didn't knot it. Mom wears it all the time, and it's shown no signs of wear at all.

Kathy N-V

Unless you specifically want to do knotting so that if it should break you only lose at most 2 beads, there's no real reason to knot coral. I'd just restring it to the length you want.

Celine

Knotting pearls was originally done because of the rarity of natural pearls, so if the strand broke you wouldn't lose more than one.

Usually a knot is calculated to be 1/16 inch.

Tina

Which, my partner points out, makes hash of one of the standard cliches in old comedy movies -- the one where the lady's pearl necklace breaks and suddenly there are pearls all over the floor and people start falling like tenpins. Wouldn't happen.

Celine

Dave,

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 6:56:57 -0800, mkahogan wrote (in message ):

I'm using two Griffin Naturseide #4 silk cords together. I'm sure there's little chance of breakage.

I just liked the idea of the colored (yellow) thread knot contrasting between the beads.

Maybe it's best to just duplicate the original design for security's sake.

What are crimps?

Thanks,

Ahha. If it's the color of the knotting between the beads you like, there's an easy way to cheat. (The emphasis being on EASY). String the color alternately with a seed bead in the color you like.

One reason that I personally don't recommend the knotting, is that it takes skill to do it well. And it's quite noticeable when it is not done well.

Tina

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:53:08 -0800, Christina Peterson wrote (in message ):

What's a "seed" bead?

Well, now I've done it! I threaded all the beads (the original beads only, none added) onto the new silk cord (large diameter -- #4 -- thread). It won't go around my neck! It's short by about 3 inches. It's been a long time since this necklace was together, so I'm not sure how "loose" the beads were on the original, but I'm sure I've not lost any.

I suppose I could take all these off and re-thread, using knotting. But first I'm looking at my options...

Suggestions?

Thanks,

You could put a chain expanded on it. Basically it is a length of chain with links large enough to get a hook through. Shirley

In article , DaveC writes

I am guessing that you did not put in the knots. That would shorten the necklace considerably. You can put an extender on the back of it, but I'd redo it properly. It would be easy to do, just by adding in those seed beeds mentioned before. Seed beads are just little beads, like the ones used in making an "Indian belt", or other weaving project. They're just a couple millimeters wide; in the range of of 1/10th of an incg.

Tina

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:59:57 -0800, Christina Peterson wrote (in message ):

The original had no knots. I have redone the necklace without knots. It must be that the original necklace had much loosness in the beads (that would move around on the thread), but I don't remember. I just know that it fit around my neck with room to spare, and now it doesn't.

I guess I'll look at what seed beads there are that might look good.

Thanks,