Colorful tubes

Difficulty: 2
Technique: linking, stringing, macramé

Indian bracelets

These happy bracelets which you can make from colorful cords and glass tubes are sure to fascinate you thanks to their simplicity. You can connect the bracelet’s cords with the strung colorful tubes using one of the oldest textile techniques, “macramé”. The picots with double knots therefore play a role in connecting the bracelet’s cords and in tightening it around the wrist. This will enable you to create a kind of friendship bracelet.
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Materials & Tools

PRECIOSA Tubes

321 11 001; 10 x 4 mm; 10 x 5 mm; 4 x 4 mm; 5 x 5 mm; a mixture of colors
(Tu)

Other materials and tools

1 mm colorful cords (ca 1.20 m), scissors, needle nose pliers; flat nose pliers, snipping pliers, eye pins (12 mm longer than the used tubes), textile glue

Procedure

Step 1

Thread the eye pins through the individual glass tubes and finish them with a loop (figure 1a). Arrange the tubes by color in the way that you want to string them onto the cords (figure 1b).
You need ca 35 – 45x Tu for a bracelet length of about 18 cm, depending on the used material.

1 / a

Step 2

Cut 2x 36 cm cords and tie them off with individual knots, string 1 smaller tube onto each cord and then tie another knot on each cord at a distance of 9 cm.

2 / a

Step 3

Thread the cords through the eyes of the eye pins, tighten them slightly and tie them off with another knot on each cord (figure 3a). String one smaller tube onto each cord and tie it off with a knot (figure 3b).

3 / a

Step 4

Fold the remainder of the cord in half, thread it under the ends of the cords and tie a simple knot around both ends of the bracelet cord (figure 4a). Start tying knots alternately to the right and to the left. Tie a total of six double knots (“macramé”) (figure 4d).
Apply the textile glue onto the end of the cords, tie a simple knot at each end, tighten well and cut off the excess (figure 4f).

4 / a

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PRECIOSA Tubes - Product Sheet

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