I guess there are more than a few people who would look at this article's title, "Learning How to Bead," and write it off as silly. After all, there's not much more to the aspects 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 all set. How much more is there to say? What else is there to discuss?

The truth, however, is that there is a lot more to learning how to bead than simply stringing popcorn, and this content will take a closer look at what else you need to understand.

Learning how to bead involved learning in four basic areas. They may seem to be innocuous enough initially, but on closer inspection, the inescapable conclusion is that there's much more to learning how to bead than first meets the eye.

The four basic "disciplines" you have to master to really know how to bead are the following:

Mechanics

Patterning

Color Selection

Medium Selection/Mixing

We'll go through the particulars of these one at a time as a means of putting you on the path 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. Thankfully, from a mechanics point of view, it truly is about as simple as stringing popcorn. If you can do that, then you've already gotten this element of learning how to bead down, but even here, there is some subtlety. Did you know, for example, that when stringing pearls, you need 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 only want to tie a loose knot as a "bead brake" on the end of the line you're not working?

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

The next discipline you need to wrap your brain around in learning how to bead is the idea of patterning. Complete books could (and have) been written on this topic, and once you really get into it and start studying it, you'll quickly discover that of all the disciplines, this one is the most intricate and involved. Certainly 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 learn about complimentary and contrasting colors as a first course, and so are a leg up in this department, but there are plenty of assets both online and off which will advise you through this discipline on your quest to learn how to bead. Don't skimp here. Proper color selection can make or break your designs!

Finally, the last major discipline to master in learning how to bead is medium selection and the correct mixing of mediums. This is often a practical, good sense area (ie., don't mix cheap plastic with your semi-precious stones!) but even here there is some subtlety to be found.

Learning how to bead isn't too difficult, and finding a free beading project to practice with is very simple. Anybody can do it, and with practice, do it well. Just bear in mind that there's a little more to it than stringing popcorn!

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