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Location: Great Places Great Faces | I love love love beaded anything, and I have a pretty large collection of tack. But I would love to learn how to do the beading myself. How does one go about that?? My husband does leather work and so I just have to learn the beaded part. Any help would be greatly appreciated ! |
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Location: South Dakota | I'm a beader  PM me and I'll see if can help get you started! |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Get a book on beading. Some have patterns and choice of beads and how many you need. It seems easy, but it is a lot of work if you want it to look good. I did a pattern of 12 inches and it took me weeks. I had to choose the right size of bead or it would be off balance. Might want to use a little larger than a seed bead for balanced looks. |
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Location: Missouri | I've recently teamed up with a lady who does beadwork because I love to use it for inlays but just wouldn't have the time on top of the leather work. She may be able to help you out and I can pm you her # or email. Good luck though its definitely in style and looks great!  |
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Location: Great Places Great Faces | Thank you so much! Such great information, I will defiantly be contacting some people who are willing to help me!! |
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Location: Down the Gravel Road near the Missouri River, SD | make sure your beads are even/same size and the string is tight but not too tight on your loom or your beadwork will buckle. use E6000 glue once you get your beadwork taped with masking tape on the ends so it dont unravel and tuck under the strings and tape when you glue it to a thin strip of leather like garment leather, let it dry really good, sew it about every three beads along the edge to keep it in place and then its ready for the tack. I have been given so many beadstrips by our saddle shop to fix before he can put them on his tack its not even funny so make sure to glue and sew-they last a bunch longer
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Location: Florida | Yep I bought a bead loom and just went at it! I've been making hat bands and people are buying them right off my hat! Definitely start :) it's tedious and takes forever but it's somehow rewarding :) I guess because you can see the progress! PM me if I can help at all! |
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Location: North Dakota -> Colorado | For beaded tack, is there any special equiment, such as a sewing machine needed? |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Honestly... the best bead work I've ever seen was done by Navajo Indians. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I love beaded tack, I have a headstall and breascollar that is inlayed beaded.  |
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Location: Alberta | TurnNBurn-3Barrels - 2013-12-20 11:43 AM
For beaded tack, is there any special equiment, such as a sewing machine needed?
Whether you are doing beaded tack or regular tack an industrial sewing machine made for sewng leather is needed.
I use 11/0 size seed Czech beads for beadings intended for my tack sets. |
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Location: Carpenter, WY | komet. - 2015-03-21 6:58 PM Honestly... the best bead work I've ever seen was done by Navajo Indians. I love the beaded tack. Bought a loom and that's about as far as I've gotten...need to watch some of the videos or buy a book now.
We went to a horse sale and this beaded rope halter was a silent auction item and was done by a Indian lady in SD so I don't think it's Navajo. The nose is covered with elk hide and this pic definitely does not do it justice at all :) It was way to pretty to actually use so I put it in this frame.
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Location: Opelousas, LA | rach.k - 2013-12-16 10:04 AM Yep I bought a bead loom and just went at it! I've been making hat bands and people are buying them right off my hat! Definitely start :) it's tedious and takes forever but it's somehow rewarding :) I guess because you can see the progress! PM me if I can help at all!
Do you have pictures? |
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Location: Around here somewhere... | fusionbeads.com had some GREAT instructions on getting started!!! |
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Location: Kansas | following, I would love to learn how to bead. |
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