TUTORIAL:

Inspired from the Chinese lantern, this charm is flexible enough for you to turn it into many parts of a design. As a cute pendant, mobile charm or my favourite, as earrings.

What you will predominantly learn in this tutorial is how to make a beaded bead which by itself can already be used as part of your design pieces like necklaces, bracelets or earrings.

This tutorial will go one step further, showing you how you can juxtaposed the beaded bead at the center of a loop to hang some bugle bead tassels, simulating the Chinese lantern.

I'm not sure how many of you would have known how a Chinese lantern looks like but enclosed above is a picture of Chinese lantern that I got from the internet.

Chinese lantern comes in various shapes and sizes but the most common one is the one in the picture enclosed. Enjoy! ;)

CREDITS: This section is inspired and written following the footsteps of Pat Capo to give any due credit(s) to who or what that may have contributed to my written tutorials.

Throughout the years that I have been doing Japanese style beadwork, I've come to learn that Japanese beadwork, is predominantly on Right Angle Weave and heavily diagram based. I've also noticed that many have been having difficulty in understanding the diagram and hence I’ve interpreted the diagram, do any modification if necessary and present it in a way that would be easier for students to learn and understand the weave.

The beaded bead is inspired from a pattern for beaded bead which I have in my collection throughout the years that I was doing Japanese style beadwork, the author of which is not stated.

I made some modification to the original design using beads more commonly used and came up with a way to juxtaposed the beaded bead at the centre of a tassel loop.

• (8) 4mm Swarovski crystal bicone
• (4) 4mm round bead
• (16) Size 7 seed bead
• (8) Size 10/11/12 seed bead
• (1) 6mm round bead
• Fishing line/monofilament/Supplemax or equivalent
• 22 ga / 0.6mm wire

• Scissors
• Round nose pliers
• Chain nose pliers
• Cutter