How to Make Necklace with Metal Beads and Gemstones

Metalbeads have been used to create fashion necklaces for women for a long time. They are made of different metals in different colors, sizes, shapes and designs. They are always used to mix and match with other jewelry beads to create jewelry. How to use metal beads and gemstone beads to create necklaces? Followed are two ideas of jewelry making for reference.

Gemstone Pendants

Wire wrapping jewelry has been popular for a long time. Many people like to use jewelry wire to wrap several circles around the top of beads or pendants to decorate. Do you have some other good ideas to decorate your beads or pendants specially? If no, why not try to use metal beads and other beads to decorate? For example, maybe you have a natural rectangle gemstone pendant without hole and want to use it as necklace pendant. Wire wrapping is a good method for this design, but don’t use wire to wrap several circles on the top of pendant. You can use two clear glass luster beads in different sizes and one metal bead. About the color of metal bead, use the same color as jewelry wire is perfect. Use jewelry wire to wrap your rectangle gemstone as usual first. When you start to make a special on the top of gemstone, you can string the larger glass luster bead, metal bead and smaller glass luster bead on the two straight wires. And now, you can wrap several small circles on the top small glass bead and make a loop with the rest jewelry wire by your jewelry pliers. Attach the wire wrapped gemstone pendant on a leather cord and add clasps. A special wire wrapped metal beads gemstone necklace is finished.

Iron Filigree Beads

The second necklace is made with bicone and small round metal bead spacers, delicate round and tube metal beads, blue rectangle and oval topaz beads, iolite oval beads and oval sunstone beads. About the quantity of each kind of beads, it depends on the length of your necklace. Choose a jewelry wire with the same color as metal beads, and use crimp bead and crimp cover to fix one end of the wire. String 8pcs blue topaz bead in order of 2pcs rectangle followed by 2pcs oval, and separated two different shapes by round small bead spacers. Then string gemstone beads and metal beads one by one. The colors of gemstone can be randomly, but make sure that the delicate metal round beads are placed on the middle places of this necklace. After you have stringed all the metal round beads on, string the rest gemstone beads and metal beads as the first part of necklace. And then, fix the wire and attach a clasp. A beautiful necklace is finished, and you will find that the different gemstones in this necklace really highlight all the different metal beads used.