Start in the best way with making you own DIY jewelry
Get started with jewellery making at Smyks.com!
Here you will find a list of jewellery guides for the most commonly used techniques, as well as guides for specific jewellery designs.
We would love to help you get started with DIY jewellery making. That's why below you'll find our own guides for the most basic jewellery techniques, jewellery designs such as daisy-chain and brick-stitch, winding techniques and knotting guides.
On Youtube, you can also find many of our guides shown step-by-step on video.
See also Smyk's jewellery blog section
Jewelry techniques: The basics
- Berry beads - how to make them yourself
- Classical macramé braiding tutorial
- DIY Invisible bead connection with wire (pdf)
- DIY Jewelry chain with lock
- Graph papers for various beading techniques
- How to make a loop for a hanging bead with headpins
- How to make an eye on a bead
- How to open and close jumprings correctly.
- Monkey-fist knot
- Slip-knot guide
Jewelry techniques: Earrings
- DIY Peyote Stitch Tubes (pdf)
Jewelry techniques: Rings
Jewelry techniques: Necklaces and bracelets
- 8-knot bracelet tutorial
- Creative pearl jewelry - mounting clasp on necklace (pdf)
- DIY Bracelet with seed beads and adjustable clasp (pdf)
- DIY Bracelets with Tila beads made with elastic cord (pdf)
- Male necklaces with cool steel beads and heavy pendants
- Necklace with knots between the pearls/beads
- O-ring bracelets/chainmaille with rubber- and aluminium O-rings.
- Sami bracelets + video
- Turks-head-knot bracelets
- Wrapbracelets with crystal chain and soutache
Guides/information for 'Goldsmithing work'
- Info about silver soldering materials and tools (pdf)
- DIY - Silver soldering, making a finger ring (pdf)
- DIY - Saw guide (pdf)
Jewelry techniques: Other guides for materials and tools
- Crimp bead plier, how to use it
- How to Choose Clasps for your DIY Jewellery [Bayonet, Hook, Glue-in & Magnetic Clasps]
- Oxidization of Silver (darkening) easily done.
- Smyks‘ beading thread and beading wire guide
- Coral Beads: Types, Shapes, and Colors
Video guides:
- Bead chain with knots between the beads
- Bracelet with french wire
- Daisy earrings
- Daisy earrings with center
- DIY how to make a loop on a bead - video version (mp4)
- Ear studs with pendant and chain
- Earrings with chain pendants
- Earrings with chain pendants (no. 2)
- Earrings with grape clusters
- Earrings with pearl chain without jumprings and loops
- Easy and durable clasp for a bracelet or necklace
- Hoops with wired pearls
- Hoops with wired small beads
- Hoop with beaded chain
- How to make loop with headpin
- How to open an oval magnetic lock (Mp4 video)
- Jewellery chain with Lobster claw clasp
- Looper plier, how to make loops with the use of special plier
- Necklace with chain and pearls (no jumprings or loops)
- Necklace with chain and pearls connected
- Necklace with crimb ends
- Use of elastic cord and bead needle
- Winding technique for linking multiple on earrings
- Wristband with elastic cord
- Wristband with three chains
Smyks trend-catalogues ower the years
be aware that certain materials/beads may no longer be available.
Spring-summer 2013 (3 pages)
Spring-summer 2012 (3 pages)
Spring-summer 2011 (3 pages)
Autumn-winther 2011 (3 pages)
Spring-summer 2010 (3 pages)
Autumn-winther 2010 (4 pages)