Method for beading design on clothes

I've never found a book that talks about beading in detail. But I have done a lot of beading. ;) You don't want to use any tissue paper or anything like that you would have to tear off after you bead. You will just have beads flying off if you do that.

There are a few things you can try. Draw out your design. Then use a tracing wheel and tracing paper to mark the design on your garment. Have you seen these before? The tracing wheel has a handle and then the business end is a wheel with little spokes sticking out. The paper you use is like carbon paper. You put the tracing paper under your drawn design, and then put them (tracing paper down) on top of your garment. Then run the wheel over the lines of your drawing. It will make blue marks on the garment wherever you run that wheel. The marks can be removed later. (been a long time since I used one of these, read the package for directions.)

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If it's a simple design, and you've not made the garment yet, you just have the bodice piece, you can stitch trace the design. To do that, you want to firmly pin your paper drawing to the garment piece. Then take the whole thing to your sewing machine. Stitch through the lines on the design with a thread color that you can see, but that will blend with the beads. (you won't remove it, you will just bead over it.) You could still do this method if you have a top that's big enough for you to get in there to work.

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You can just draw out your design directly onto the garment with a wash away fabric marker. Don't use the kind that will fade away on it's own. Trust me, it will fade before you want it to. ;) But the wash away kind melts off there with plain water. So you can draw out your design and then stitch the beads in place, then spray with water to remove the ink.

Does that help you? If any of that doesn't make sense, let me know.

Sharon

google tambour beading, I think that's the name of a technique

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Check out the Native American beading books. They are about the best. We put beads in some very intricate patterns on everything. My family and I just finished a wedding dress for a cousin that has a short cape totally covered in seed beads in Cree woodland flowers. It weights about 30 lbs and is on white velvet but turned out very nice.

Beads to buckskins is a great teaching tool for all beading techniques.

are hundreds of books written on this subject and a Googlesearch should turn up many. Have fun it is a great way to relax. To see some very nice work with seed beads visit a Powwow in your areathis year.

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Penny, tambour beading is a different technique than straight hand beading. It uses a special hook, and I'm not sure would work for what she's hoping to bead.

Ironically, I was just leafing through an old book, Sew Far Sew Good by Heather Claus, the other day, and it has several beading methods. This is one of the first places I've ever seen these stitches, by the way.

Another source of > google tambour beading, I think that's the name of a technique

You are all so good on this group - helpful in the extreme. I have taken on board most of the hints I think will be useful for me.

I am not in the USA - so tambour beading means nothing to me. I was looking for advice as to how to attach sequins and seed beads on material. I omitted to say the material IS flimsy - and I will probably use a combination of the hints that seem applicable to what I want to do. I think I will start off first by decorating a flower pattern on an existing top. I have a bought one that has sequin/bead decoration - so first thing is to try to copy that onto an undecorated top and see what happens.

I think if iI were to try to make a pattern myself to embellish something relatiely flimsy I would draw a pattern on something like that paper-based bonding material that comes in various thicknesses and iron-on or sew through (I can't remember the name of this stuff and it's annoying me) and then loosely tack around each edge and try to attach the sequins/beads without going through the backing. and then take it off when I'd finished.

I think this might be difficult, so might be better to lightly trace the pattern first, and then remove from beneath before commencing the beading.

I can work well with beads. I make earrings in all sizes and shapes and they sell well. I have the very fine lingerie thread necessary for threading through beading needles.

I'll have a go and see what happens. I will also try to access those Net sources people kindly suggested.

Again many thanks.

Daisy

's neither a USA term ("Tambour is a French word meaning 'drum'. ) nor a USA technique ( "The Paris fashion houses of the 1920s popularised lavishly beaded evening wear." ). ;-) I have never tried it, but it's mentioned in a couple of couture books I own. Looks very interesting.

The trouble with doing this is that anything you want to stitch through and tear off later is likely to pull the stitching threads with it, and/or rip the fabric, especially if it is flimsy, like chiffon.

One way I have seen this done is with a pencil line on the BACH of the fabric: you work with the fabric in an embroidery frame, over a light box. Where the solid lines of beading go, the pencil shows through faintly and you cannot see it afterwards. It's rather slow, but once all the solid stuff is in place, it's then easier to place the more open or random sections in by eye.

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Daisy, you could back the flimsy fabric with either nylon tulle or silk organza--either of these fabrics, depending on your fashion fabric, would support the beading better. If you look at beaded garments in the store, they are often backed with something to help support the beads.

Hope this helps!

Karen Maslowski > You are all so good on this group - helpful in the extreme. I have

anyway, I love anything ethnic, espcecially american Indian since my grandpa and grandma were both about a 1/4 indian, each had an indian grandma. I love anything period, anything western, I've enjoyed reading period novels since I read the little house series and Caddie Woodlawn during fifth grade I guess.