How Do You Make French Beaded Flowers?
A relatively simple technique that looks simply amazing, French beaded flowers make lovely jewelry, home décor items and bouquet additions. This style of bead craft has roots going back centuries to the European Renaissance and enjoys periodic revivals but is not widely known by most beaders. Varying the size of the beads can take your finished flowers from delicate to substantial, depending on your purpose, but the effect is stunning at any size. Here is how to do it. String a large number of beads onto the wire without removing the wire from the spool. There’s no set number to work with but err on the side of too many rather than not enough. Simply put: larger petals take more beads, even more if your beads are small. This is probably the single most tedious part of these flowers so it’s good that we get it out of the way early. Move a few beads towards the free end of the wire and make a loop below them. The distance between the free end of the wire and the loop should be equal to t
