Tips for ceramic beadmaking

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Making a bead is really very simple.

It is just like you would expect it to be.

You measure out your clay,

You roll it in a bowl or make a rectangle or a square or a mishmash nugget and you stick a stick through it and you are done. You got to be.

You can do this with porcelain, stone ware.

You can do this with earth and ware. You can do this at polymer.

There is even when air drawing clay that you can buy and do this with,

It is very simple.

The hard part and the fun part comes when you get to take that bowl of clay after it is been fire and you get to decorate it.

You get to put on as many details as you like and this is what can make a bead cost more than the average bead at the bead store.

Sometimes they cost more than a single gemstone bead.

But once you see what kind of work goes in each bead, you can see exactly what I mean.

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I measure out the bead,

Right here is my largest size bead.

And to roll them, I use rolling,

And I can feel it on my palm and I can kind of tell when it is round and I can look at it and smooth out and have a nice time with it.

I like the smooth and slipness of the aluminum.

I tend to not have any problems, I spoke a hole.

I come out to where it is not really on the other side,

But you can see it is just poking up, just a little tiny bit.

And pull it out, and put it in the other side.

And I have a very nice, clean hole on both sides.

And these are.

This is a little firm clay so it is not going to getting the shape and if I put it down,

If it was a little bit wetter, I would want to hang it off the side, maybe on the skewer, to dry.

If I wanted to decorate this bead just using my fingers and these,

I could do a lot of different things.

I could roll this down aside,

So, I have it, it looks like a little pumpkin?

Or, I can take it and could just put dots in it randomly,

Another way, I like to make beads is after I have them roll down, I like to press them between two molds.

I have a bowl of clay,

And I have two sides of the mold,

And I press them together, and it makes a tablet.

And then I have a nice picture with beads on both sides.

With lots of little stamps, I buy them in all the crap stores and the stamps stores and I have lots of them.

This is a little stamp of little hearts. I could stamp in little hearts,

And that would be great.

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Once these beads are fire, then I can glaze them.

Glazing down, sometimes can take a long time or I can take a short time. It depends on how detail of work you are doing or how you just using one color, maybe using five colors.

Maybe you are layering your colors so it is going to take an extraordinarily and extraordinarily long time to do one bead.

So if you see a bead in a bead store and it looks so expensive, look at the glazes. It will really uncover your answers.

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