Free Tip Friday: All About Pearls

Join Kate & Janice as they impart some tricks on choosing pearls, how to knot and what is the difference between one kind of silk and another. Have questions about knotting? This broadcast is for you!
They also show the latest limited edition pearls that just arrived in the online shop!
Here are easy links to products, projects and learning:
Freshwater Pearls to Love: www.beadshop.c...
Classic Pearl Knotting Handout circa 2010: www.beadshop.c...
Silk on Spools: www.beadshop.c...
Flexible Eye Needles: www.beadshop.c...
GS Hypo Cement: www.beadshop.c...
Griffin Thread: www.beadshop.c...
End Tips: www.beadshop.c...
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Thank you and happy knotting!

[@texasceechelle]

Great tips to clean and test pearls/beads, and your drawing really will newer pearl knotters. I love your new magnetic clasps. Are they rare earth? Thanks for the great videos.

[@sibylledyer5766]

Hi! Why do you not make a knot after the bead tip?

[@beadshopdotcom]

Hi Sibylle, we want to make a knot into the end tip but when you do a knot after or next to the end tip, the thread surface is larger and has more area to rub against the silk knot and wear it away. It's traditional to let the pearl be next to the end tip and put a knot after the first pearl. i hope this helps! ~janice

[@sibylledyer5766]

@@beadshopdotcom thank you Janice!!