Perhaps there are more than a few individuals who would read this article's title, "Learning How to Bead," and write them back as silly. After all, there's not much more to the mechanics 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 state? What else is there to talk about?

The truth, however, is that there is a fair bit 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 areas. They may seem innocuous enough initially, 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 must master to truly 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" education is mechanics. If you don't have the mechanics down, then the rest is irrelevant. Fortunately, from a mechanics point of view, 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. Did you know, for example, that when stringing pearls, you want 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?

So even where the basic mechanics are concerned, there's more to learning the way to bead than you may first think. By far, however, this is the simplest of the four aspects to learn.

The next discipline you'll want to wrap your brain around in learning how to bead is the notion 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 realize that of all the disciplines, this one is the most intricate and involved. Definitely the one you'll devote the most time on when learning how to bead.

Color selection is one part skill and one part science. Art students discover more about complimentary and different colors as a first course, and thus are a leg up in this department, but there are plenty of resources 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 major discipline to master in learning how to bead is medium selection and the proper 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 rocket science, and finding a free beading project to practice with is dead 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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