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Perhaps there are lots of individuals who would read this article's title, "Learning How to Bead," and write them back as silly. In fact, there isn't much more to the aspects of beading than there is to stringing snacks to place 'round the Christmas Tree, right? That, and a free beading project to work on, and you're ready. What more is there to talk about? What else is there to discuss?

The reality, however, is that there is a lot more to learning how to bead than simply stringing popcorn, and this post will take a closer look at what else you'll want to understand.

Learning how to bead required learning in four basic aspects. They might seem to be innocuous enough at first, but on closer inspection, the inevitable conclusion is that there's a lot more to learning how to bead than first you would think.

The four basic "disciplines" you have to get good at to really know how to bead are the following:

Mechanics

Patterning

Color Selection

Medium Selection/Mixing

We'll go through the particulars of these one-by-one as a way of putting you on the route to learning how to bead.

The first step in your "learn how to bead" training is mechanics. If you don't have the mechanics down, then the rest does not matter. Thankfully, from a mechanics viewpoint, it truly is about as simple as stringing popcorn. If it can be done, then you've already gotten this element of knowing how to bead down, but even here, there is some subtlety. Were you aware, for instance, that when stringing pearls, you need to tie a knot on each side of the stone to avoid potential damage caused by the stones rubbing against each other? Or that there are times when you merely have to tie a loose knot as a "bead brake" at the end of the line you're not working?

Thus even where the basic mechanics are involved, there's much more to learning the way to bead than you may first think. Undoubtedly, however, this is the simplest of the four aspects to get good at.

The next discipline you need to wrap your brain around in mastering how to bead is the idea of patterning. Complete books could (and have) been written on this subject, and once you really get into it and start learning it, you'll quickly find that of all the fields, this one is the most complex and involved. Certainly the one you'll devote the most time on when learning how to bead.

Color selection is one part skill and the other part science. Art students discover more about complimentary and different colors as a first course, therefore are a leg up in this department, however there are several assets both online and off which will advise you through this discipline on your quest to learn how to bead. Don't think of saving here. Proper color selection could make or break your patterns!

Finally, the last main aspect to master in learning how to bead is medium selection and the correct mixing of mediums. This is often a practical, good sense area (ie., don't combine lower quality plastic material with your semi-precious stones!) but even here there is some subtlety to be found.

Learning how to bead isn't too difficult, and getting a free beading project to practice with is very simple. Anybody can do it, and with practice, do it well. Just remember that there's a little more to it than stringing popcorn!

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