How to make a beaded bonsai with your own hands?

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

It is impossible to take your eyes off when you see a beautiful tree on the windows of shops or on the shelves of art lovers, which has absorbed the fruit of the imagination of a skilled craftsman. This cute beaded bonsai can be a bright decoration, an interesting addition to your home interior. A cute tree made with your own hands will bring a touch of summer, the warmth of southern countries, to your cozy nest. In addition, a souvenir, which is the fruit of painstaking work, will be a wonderful gift for friends and will be appreciated.

In this tutorial we will be happy to tell you how to create various beaded trees, we have reserved for you the technique of making a standard bonsai, sakura weaving and a bright, fluffy version with flowers. We will analyze in detail the different ways of making interesting branches, share vivid examples of finished crafts in the form of jewelry.

Let's try to make a beaded bonsai together.

Simple weaving

In order to weave a bright, beautifultree, you will need:

• green beads;
• brown wire;
• brown thread;
• pot of appropriate size;
• alabaster;
• paint and brushes;
• decoration elements of your choice.

Besides this, you will need patience and perseverance to complete your work. Simple weaving requires a lot of free time, but believe me, your efforts will pay off, this delightful tree is worth it.

Bonsai weaving

First of all, measure a piece of wire 45 cm long. Dial 8 beads on it, fold the wire in half and move the beads to the middle. There, form a loop by twisting the ends of the segment several times.

At one of the ends, type 8 more beads and, moving them closer to the loop, stepping back from it just a couple of millimeters, make another of the same curl. When twisting the wire for fastening, use a piece with small distances between the loops.

To make a small branch, pick up 4 of these loops on each side. With a total score on one, you should get 8-9 curls of beads. To weave a tree, you will need 150-160 of these branches.

Be patient and you will succeed, this is one of the easiest ways to create a bonsai, however, any weaving of a tree requires a lot of time and perseverance.

Collecting twigs

The next step in weaving beaded bonsai is collecting bunches. You need to take three branches together, twist the wire several times. To make our tree as close to natural as possible, place all the elements in the bundle a little higher or lower than each other, literally a couple of centimeters.

You need to form the crown in such a way that larger branches and the tree as a whole look more natural, do some fragments from two branches.

Putting all the parts together, interlacing them with each other several times, wrap the top, about 1 cm, with a thread in the color of the wire. Make bunches from all available branches before proceeding to the next step.

Collecting wood

Next, larger branches are formed, and from them - the trunk. Take one bundle, just below, where the thread ends, attach another one of the same to it. Opposite, or just below the next, twist the wire several times and wrap everything together with a thread two centimeters from the last bundle.

To make the tree more natural, make some branches large by adding 4 bunches, they will look great in the center of the tree. For half a centimeter, wrap the elements for connection with a thread.

The finished branches can only be folded into a whole tree, for this, connect them at different distances from each other, unbend them in different directions, making the tree sprawling and fluffy.

Your beaded tree is almost ready, all you have to do is plant it and decorate it.

Bonsai stand

We are the treeput in a pot. Secure the container. Put a few stones or gravel on its bottom to make it heavier and not waste a lot of alabaster. The stones will also keep the wood from falling into the mortar.

Fix the tree in the center of the pot. Spread the alabaster and fill the free space with it. With an old unnecessary brush, coat the tree trunk with the same solution, masking the bumps and turns of the wire. Leave the beaded bonsai to dry.

While the alabaster is not hardened, take a toothpick, a needle or a match and make characteristic bumps on the tree trunk. After that, wait for complete drying.

The next stage is the last, this is the decoration. Take some brown paint and coat the trunk over the grout, be careful not to make the layers thick, don't clog the wood structure.

Cover and alabaster in a pot, simulating the earth. Leave the braid to dry.

When the solution hardens in all places, the tree can be decorated. Use various stones, flowers, grass and figurines for this. It would be nice to decorate the pot by tying it with a bow.

Here's how to make a beaded bonsai tree. According to this scheme, products of various colors are made. We will adhere to this algorithm in the following master classes.

Sakura bonsai

Sakura is the simplest tree that can be woven from beads, it is performed in time just like bonsai, but the branches in it are much simpler, more fluffy. Let's get acquainted together with the rules of the master class for creating a bonsai tree from beads. The photo of this decoration is no less impressive than the previous version. Do not miss the opportunity to make such a product yourself.

To weave this tree you will need:

• pink beads;
• wire;
• tape tape;
• gypsum;
• adhesive plaster;
• PVA glue;
• paint;
• thick aluminum wire.

To make the sakura bright, lively, use a mixture of beads from pink shades that are close to each other. And also - a few transparent beads and a couple of green ones. This way you get a vibrant, blooming sakura with many iridescent petals.

Weaving

Take the spool of wire. To weave a branch of sakura, we do not need to measure the segments. We string as many beads on it, you can use a convenient spinner for a set of beads.

Stepping back 10 cm from the edge of the wire, separate 7 beads from the total row and make a loop by twisting the two ends exactly 5 times. To create the next curl, step back a little more than a centimeter, measure 7 more beads and loop again by turning the wire 5 times.

Make 17 small elements using this method. After completing the weaving, step back 10 cm from the last one and cut the wire. Fold it in half so that the middle loop looks up and twist the halves together. So you get a rare branch of sakura. Pull the loops somewhere, bend somewhere to get a natural twig.

For the tree you will needapproximately 150 such items. As in the simple weaving of a standard beaded bonsai, we advise you to be patient in this monotonous, but rather tempting activity.

And again we give our tree natural forms. The branches should be of different lengths, so weave:

• 15-20 sts x 17 sts;
• 30-40 pieces of 15, 13 and 11 loops.

When all the small branches are ready, we can start forming the larger ones.

Sakura picking

First, as a basis for a larger branch, take an element for 17 loops, twist it, and a smaller branch, for example, for 15 loops. Attach the third part a little lower by 11 loops.

In this way, twist branches of different sizes, using the longest of 3-4 shoots as the main one.

When all the details are connected in bunches of three, you can start weaving an even more impressive branch. They, as in the previous master class, must be connected by 3-4 branches, placing 1 cm below the previous one.

Finished twigs need to be decorated, for this use threads or tape for a more delicate look of the tree.

Start wrapping as high as possible, at the very beginning of the connection, so that the color does not stand out too much.

To create a trunk, we need a thick wire, take 4-5 twigs and twist them together, exposing one to the side every 1.5-2 centimeters. At the beginning of turning, leave 3 centimeters of wire each, unbend them in different directions so that they arestable and held the trunk. Bend the exposed segments in different directions. This will serve as a frame for the tree. Too long pieces of thick wire cut.

Cherry blossom stand

Look at the photo of the beaded bonsai below, we will try to make the same stand. To do this, look for an unnecessary mold. Divide the plaster, then, after inserting the frame to the bottom and fixing it, fill it with plaster.

When the mortar dries, sand the plaster, add relief if you need. Paint and varnish.

Attach the shoots to the protruding bases for the branches with strong threads. Add elements evenly, bending them for the illusion of a living tree. You can also add some bare twigs. Decorate protruding free shoots with teip tape, and wrap large, thick ones, including the trunk, tightly with adhesive tape.

Cover the trunk with PVA glue before plastering, dilute the thick solution and brush the branches tightly over the material with a brush. After drying, repeat the procedure in those places where it seems to you that the adhesive plaster is not hidden enough. While the gypsum has not hardened, give relief to the bark of the tree.

The dried product can only be covered with paint and decorate the stand. You can decorate it by pouring the remains of beads, imitating fallen petals.

Look at this photo of a beaded bonsai with your own hands, what a wonderful work, this tree is full of spring mood! And by doing it yourself, you will get deeper satisfaction.

Here are such wonderful master classes on weaving bonsai from beads, step by step, with photos, we have reviewed. These decorations are very easy to weave, you just need to be patient by allocating a couple of hours for this. The time spent creating these beautiful, sprawling, fluffy trees will pay off, returning admiration and recognition to you.