https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/bead-embellished-fans • Posted by Sybaritic Jewelry
For a tropical spring wedding, we added sea-inspired beads to these wholesale bought sandalwood fans to create a memorable (and useful!) wedding favor.
For a tropical spring wedding, we added sea-inspired beads to these wholesale bought sandalwood fans to create a memorable (and useful!) wedding favor.
Decide on a length for your bead attachments, and layout the beads you will use. I was making 50+, and wanted to use up leftover beads from old projects, so I went with a sea-inspired palette, and a maximum of three identical bead 'layouts'.
Our sandalwood fans came packaged in individual boxes, but these were for a wedding ceremony and were going to be displayed in a vase. Therefore: take the fans out of the boxes and take the boxes to the recycling bin.
To facilitate an assembly-line, I cut all my wires first. Your wire will measure: double what you want your final length to be, and then a little extra (I like an inch extra on both sides).
The fans have a metal loop through which we'll thread the beading wire.
Thread the beading wire.
Assemble first, crimp later (just make sure not to knock over the table and send all your work onto the floor).
Once the wire is threaded through the fan's metal link and the beads are on the wire, place a crimp bead onto both wires. Notice the seed bead finishing the assembly (before the crimp). Some beads, like that green one, have holes large enough for a crimp bead to slide through, so I wanted insurance.
Crimp the crimp. These I just flattened (instead of folded), because I was going to cut off the extra wire and didn't mind the 'rectangular' crimp.
Trim the excess wire.
Impress your family. Notice the extra-special purple one I made for myself :o)
Fend off summer.