Golden snowflake

Difficulty: 1

Snowflake made using beads and seed beads from the PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Beads™ brand

We have prepared a tutorial to help you make a snowflake using beads and seed beads from the PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Beads™ brand.

Snowflakes bring us joy when hung as an interior decorations and they make a beautiful addition to windows and doors. You can also use mini snowflakes to decorate gift boxes and candles or give them to your friends as a small gift. We wish you a pleasant time beadworking.

Alexandra Lysenko - Snow Mirna

Her name has resounded throughout the world of bead and seed bead costume jewellery for a number of years.

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Material and Tools

PRECIOSA Rocailles

331 19 001; 8/0; 17050
(R8)


 

PRECIOSA Rocailles

331 19 001; 10/0; 17050
(R10)

 

PRECIOSA Rocailles

331 19 001; 10/0; 78102
(R10)

PRECIOSA Fire Polished Beads

151 29 001; 10 x 7 mm; 00030/22500  
(FPB1)

PRECIOSA Fire Polished Beads

151 29 001; 8 x 6 mm; 00030/22500
(FPB2)

PRECIOSA Fire Polished Beads

151 29 001; 7 x 5 mm; 00030/22500
(FPB3)

PRECIOSA Fire Polished Beads

151 39 001; 3 x 6 mm; 00030/22503
(FPB4)

PRECIOSA Pinch beads

111 54 805; 5 mm; 00030/26441
(P)

Tools

0.3 mm wire; a small rubber stopper; a 9 cm metal base for the snowflake; snipping pliers;
needle-nose pliers

Procedure

Step 1

String the beads and seed beads onto the individual wires in this order: 1x R10 – 1x R8 – 1x FPB3 – 1x R10 – 1x FPB4 – 1x R10 – 1x FPB2 – 1x R10 – 1x FPB4 – 1x R10 – 1x FPB1 – 1x R10 – 1x FPB4 – 1x R10 – 1x P.

Close the wire with a silicon stopper so that the beads and seed beads do not fall off  the wire which you are not currently working on (fig. no. 1). 

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Step 2

Cut off ca 1 m of wire. Make a few twists on one of the snowflake‘s arms at the FPB3. Then string the seed beads on the wire in the following order: 3x silver R10 – 4x gold R8 (fig. no. 2a), Thread back through the first five R8 rocailles and a pull it in; you will have a large flower or a cross (fig. nos. 2b - 2c). String the wire again with 3x R10 and make two twists around the next arm of the snowflake (fig. no. 2d). Repeat this step all the way around until you return to where you started. Twist the ends of the wires together and snip off the remainder of the wire (fig. nos. 2e - 2f).

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Step 3

Cut off another piece of wire at a length of ca 1 m. Make a few twists on one of the snowflake‘s arms at the FPB1 (fig. no. 3a). Then string rocailles onto the wire in the following order: 5x silver R10 – 4x gold R10. Thread the wire back through the first gold R10 rocaille and pull it in; you now have a small flower (fig. nos. 3b - 3c). Repeat the procedure twice. Then string 5x silver R10 and thread the wire back through the top seed beads of the flower of the lower row of seed beads. Make the other flowers in the same way and make two twists around the next arm of the snowflake. Repeat this step all around until you reach the place where you started. Twist the ends of the wires together and snip off the remainder (fig. no. 3d).

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Step 4

Now use the pliers to make a small loop at the end of each wire (fig. nos. 4a - 4b). The bead and seed bead snowflake is now finished! 

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Downloads

Rocailles Colors - Catalogue

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PRECIOSA Rocailles - Product Sheet

General product information and size availability.
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Fire Polished Beads Shapes

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Fire Polished Beads Colors

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Project Golden snowflake

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PRECIOSA Fire Polished Beads

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PRECIOSA Rocailles

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