[Jewelry making - Article 00036] - Re: [Orchid] To knot beads, or not to knot beads?

[Beth Wicker]

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    I'm not award of knotting based on hardness except for those
    materials soft enough to need to be protected from each other or
    other beads (such as the pearls and amber you mentioned), but rather
    on the type of stringing material and the likelihood that the bead
    might cut it. I choose stringing material partly on what I am
    stringing, to try and minimize the chance that the bead may abrade
    the stringing material and cut through.  If you have any doubts,
    knotting ensures the whole strand doesn't wind up on the floor of the
    mall if a bead wears through (like one from India that a customer
    brought me to restring - the entire necklace wound up scattered on
    the mall floor while she was shopping!).  I haven't worked with fire
    opal, but don't knot amethyst or garnet myself, unless I'm mixing
    them with pearls (which they go with beautifully!). 

    I'll be interested to hear what some of our expert stringers say to
    this. 

Beth in SC (who is actually in NC looking out at the ocean right now - 
lovely!)


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