Finding a course in making necklaces.........minefield....reviewed many but found that they were mostly for the hobbyist. I needed to be able to string my pearls to a professional standard. Books, videos, networking and asking many questions that were answered reluctantly led me to a point where I could start making my first string of pearls.........
Full time day job and 18 months of evenings and weekends dedicated to my pearl stringing exercise......I had no idea how many ways silk thread could knot itself, snag, break and reduce me to tears of frustration. Do I wax the thread, different hole sizes and using the wrong thread size, enlarging holes, finishing a necklace, ends attaching to clasp not even, having made a knot between each pearl only to find I missed a couple, unable to undo a knot and having to start again, making a decision to make a necklace with no knots separating the individual pearls... wrong decision....learning to gauge the amount of pearls required to produce a necklace of a particular length....16inches or 18inches... smaller diameter pearls versus larger.....calculating the increase in length when putting a knot between each pearl.
By the end of this learning curve, I had acquired glasses, binocular magnifiers, a whole range of jewellers tools and had probably strung in the region of 600 necklaces.
So what.......the proof of the success of my efforts will only be evident when I can convert this to a saleable product!
So what.......the proof of the success of my efforts will only be evident when I can convert this to a saleable product!
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