Freshwater beads contain freshwater pearl beads and freshwater shell beads. For hundreds of years, the only people who wore pearls were royalty and nobles, and later, the fabulously wealthy who could afford them. Today, the good news is that you don’t have to spend a small fortune to get beautiful pearls to use in your bead-weaving and jewelry making projects.
About the freshwater pearl beads, they are the result of irritation in the soft tissue of a mollusk. Slimy water creatures aside, pearls are as beautiful and fascinating as any gemstone that many people have even seen, and certainly hold more allure for some people than other types of semi-precious beads. Freshwater pearl beads are now available in dozens of different shapes beyond the traditional round and off-round. Freshwater shell beads come in various shapes and are dyed in different colors too. No matter what kind of freshwater beads you would like to get, you will easily find them from a large jewelry beads wholesaler such as PandaHall.
Here I would like to share some simple but stunning, elegant jewelry designs of freshwater beads with you.
Natural Freshwater Pearl Beads Strands
Pearl Drop Earrings
This design is very suitable for beginners.
Materials: 2 white freshwater pearl beads; 2 silver beads; 2 closed oval links of chains; 2 sterling silver headpins; 2 earring hooks.
Steps: Slide each bead onto a headpin, and make a closed wire loop at the top. At the top of the last bead, using round nose pliers to create a loop in the wire, and slide the oval chain link onto the loop before closing the loop and fastening the beads to the link. Using your pliers to open the loop at the bottom of your earring hook and slide your link chain onto the earring. Close the loop and your earring is completed. Repeat for the second one. A pair of simple, but elegant freshwater pearl beads earrings are finished.
Glass Pearl Earrings, with Glass Beads and Brass Earring Hooks
Freshwater Shell Bracelets
Materials: 5 creamy freshwater shell flower beads (have two holes at edges); 10pcs rhinestone links; 1 iron lobster claw clasp; 1 strand of extended chain.
Steps: Adding rhinestone links on each hole of flower beads (10pcs rhinestone links for 5 flower beads). Attaching two rhinestone links from two individual flower beads on the lobster claw clasp and then linking other rhinestone links together to make a circle. The last step is to add the extended chain to the jump ring of lobster claw clasp. A elegant bracelet is finished. You can also use some jump rings to link the rhinestone links together.
Freshwater Shell Bracelets, Rhinestone
They are very stunning and elegant, but simple to make, right? You can also have a look at PandaHall’s Official Facebook if you would like to get more inspirations and ideas about jewelry making. Just purchase some jewelry beads and findings to make your own gorgeous jewelry.
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