How Do You End A Hemp Jewelry Project?
If you’ve ever worked with hemp jewelry before, you know that you can easily ruin a piece at the very end of the project. Once you cut off the ends of the strings, redoing knots and reworking the entire piece is much harder without enough slack to hold onto the hemp properly. Here’s how to effectively end a basic hemp jewelry project. Make sure the piece is properly knotted, and ready to finish. Size it again one more time before you knot or cut the ends. Gather all of the threads together, and cut all strands about half an inch down from where the shortest strand ends so that they are all the same length, but you still have plenty of room. Make sure to cut straight across instead of at an angle to avoid problems later Coat the end of the hemp strands with beeswax by rubbing it into the hemp. To avoid mashing up the end while trying to coat the end of the hemp strands, hold the wax against the hemp about half an inch from the end and, while pressing the hemp to the wax, pull the wax ou
