[Jewelry making - Article 00005] - Re: [Orchid] Stretching silk

[Sowestdeco]

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    Hi - I'm mainly a jeweler, not a bead person, but I do occasionally
    string pearls on silk.  I almost always dye my silk (with Ritt dye
    which may not be the best choice), then when it is still wet I
    stretch it by pulling it with both hands.  This wet stretching
    wrings the water out of the cord and also seems to take care of the
    stretching that would happen later if I had used the silk straight
    from the manufacturer. 

    If you use silk straight off the card and are knotting between
    pearls, you can try to knot really tight.  You can tell if you're
    knotting tightly because the pearls will not hang quite straight
    because they are held so tightly by the knots on either side of
    them.  Then carefully pull the finished strand to stretch it so it
    hangs straight.  I found this tight knotting difficult with a
    tri-cord knotter.  I use tweezers to push the knot down hard against
    the pearl. 

    I'm glad you asked this question.  I'm sure there are bead experts
    out there that have better answers than mine and we can await their
    solutions to this problem.  

Regards,
Suzanne

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