Basics of Right Angle Weave. Part 1: weaving a flat beaded fabric

We continue learning beading techniques. Today we will learn Right-Angle Weave stitch, also known as RAW. It is a bead weaving technique in which beads are stitched together with thread only making right angle turns. There are different kinds of RAW, such as flat right angle weave, tubular right angle weave and cubic right angle weave. At first, we will learn the basic kind of this stitch, flat right angle weave, and make a beaded fabric using this technique.

We will need:
- seed beads (I used size 8 seed beads);
- nylon fishing line and two beading needles (I used fishing line 0.3 mm in diameter).

Small Christmas wreath

Today we will make an easy-to-make Christmas decoration - a small Christmas wreath out of seed beads, bugle beads and wire.

We will need:
- bugle beads size 3 of green color;
- seed beads size 8 of three colors: green, red and yellow;
- wire 0.2 mm thick.

Snowflake of bugles

Today we will make another snowflake of beads and bugles.
We will need:
- size 3 bugle beads (I used bugle beads of light blue color);
- size 10 seed beads (I used seed beads of light green color);
- larger size seed beads (I used seed beads #8 of light blue color);
- wire 0.3 mm thick.

Carnation

For making a beaded carnation we need:

- size 8 seed beads of red and green colors,

- wire 0.3 mm thick,

- green thread for winding the stem of the flower.

Chicken family

Today we will learn how to make a mother hen for the young chicken that we made earlier.
To make this hen I used:
- Czech seed beads of #8 size of four colors: white, red, black and grey-pink;
- transparent pink sequins of 6 mm in diameter;
- wooden egg (you can also use a plastic egg);
- nylon line of 0.2 mm in diameter and a needle for beading.

Young chicken

To make a beaded young chicken we will need:
- Czech seed beads of three colors: yellow (of #10 size), red (also of #10 size) and black (of #8 size);
- white sequins of 5 mm in diameter;
- nylon thread and a needle for beading;
- rubber ball of 25 mm in diameter.

Gerbera

Today we will make a bouquet of Gerbera daisy flowers out of seed beads and wire.
We will need:
- size 11 seed beads; I made a flower for this tutorial out of seed beads of orange, yellow and green colors and also made a few gerberas of other colors;
- wire 0.3 mm thick;
- green thread for winding the stems.

Pen decorated with seed beads in peyote stitch

Today we will learn one more beading technique: a tubular peyote stitch. It is a kind of peyote stitch technique that was already used in our tutorials. Using this beading technique we will decorate a pen with seed bead.
We will need:
- a pen to be decorated; I used an ordinary gel pen with an outer diameter of 9 mm,
- Czech seed beads #10; I used seed beads of red and blue colors,
- nylon thread and a needle for beading.

Wolf

Our mini series of beading tutorials on 3-D forest animals comes to its end. Today is the final tutorial; we will make a wolf.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads; I used seed beads of grey, white and black colors, but if desired, you can do without white color and weave a wolf out of gray beads with black nose and eyes;
- wire 0.3 mm thick;
- thin nylon line and a needle for cross-linking of finished figure (if necessary).

Fox

We continue our series of beading tutorials on 3-D forest animals. Today we will make a fox.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of orange, white and black colors;
- wire 0.3 mm thick;
- thin nylon line and a needle for cross-linking of finished figure (if necessary).

Bear

We receive a lot of requests to make a series of tutorials on weaving beaded 3-D forest animals. In fact, there already are a few products at our site that make up such a series, for example, a hare, a hedgehog, a squirrel, a bullfinch, an owl and a reindeer. In order to make this series more or less complete, we should make a bear, a wolf and a fox. So we will gradually make them, and today we’ll start with a bear.
We will need:
- seed beads #8 of brown, white and black colors;
- wire 0.3 mm in diameter;
- thin nylon line and a needle for cross-linking of finished figure.