Treble clef

To make a treble clef in the beading technique of cubic right angle weave (CRAW) we will need:
- size 8 seed beads (I used seed beads of turquoise color, but you can take seed beads of any preferred color),
- nylon fishing line 0.3 mm thick and one or two beading needles (depends on the stringing method you are going to use),
- copper or aluminum wire 1 mm thick.


To weave the treble clef you can use any preferred CRAW method. For this beadwork I used a single thread stringing method of CRAW.

Start weaving and at first weave a CRAW rope of 40 cubes.

Then take a piece of wire 25 cm long (or a little longer) and insert it into the center of the beaded rope along its entire length. If your wire is soft, you may keep the working end of the wire short for now, as it is shown on the photo below. But if your wire is stiff, pull the working end of the wire so that it becomes long and the tip of the wire at the beginning of the beaded rope is just 1 cm long.

After that pass the working end of the wire through the center of the 16th cube (if we count from the working end of the CRAW rope), perpendicular to the axis of the rope.

Then, using 4 additional beads, connect the working end of the CRAW rope to that cube. You can learn such a connection technique in detail in this tutorial.

Next, pass the line through the CRAW rope and weave one cube around the wire.

Then bend the opposite (starting) part of the CRAW rope into a loop

and pass the working end of the wire through the center of the 3rd cube (if we count from the beginning of the CRAW rope).

Again, using 4 additional beads, connect the working end of the CRAW rope to that cube.

Next, pass the line through the CRAW rope and weave three cubes around the wire.

Then again pass the working end of the wire through the CRAW rope, at this time - through the 13th cube (if we count from the beginning of the CRAW rope).

Again, using 4 additional beads, connect the working end of the CRAW rope to that cube.

Once again pass the line through the CRAW rope and weave eight cubes around the wire.

Weaving is completed. Now secure the line, then bend the tip of the CRAW rope so that it looks like a rounded bottom tip of a treble clef and, if necessary, give to the beadwork the final typical shape of a treble clef. At last, trim the excess tips of wire at both ends of the beadwork.

The beaded treble clef is finished!

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