In the making of Chinese knots, bead needles (also called bead needles, colored bead pins, beading needles, or directly pins) are a very common auxiliary tool (sometimes people also call them It is a positioning pin). Because it needs to be used to fix the knot itself. And in handmade paper art diy production. The beading needle is used relatively less frequently. This is because common forms of paper art include origami, paper-cutting, paper molding, and paper sculpture. These types of handmade paper arts do not require the use of beading needles (beading needles or pins). However, in other handmade paper art DIY productions, the frequency of use of beading needles is relatively high. For example, in the production of paper quilling and paper embroidery, beading needles can be said to assist in the production of handmade paper art DIY. Its extremely obvious.
According to their styles, general beading needles can be divided into the following categories:
The first type: ordinary pins. This kind of pin is the common office pin we use in our daily life. The advantage of this kind of pin is that it is cheap and readily available, so it is very suitable for easy and convenient handicraft activities such as paper craft DIY. And because it’s cheap, you don’t have to worry about the cost of handmade production. However, the shortcomings are also relatively obvious. Since it is not beaded on the top, it is inconvenient to hold with hands when moving. This will limit the progress and speed of some complex paper crafts. However, if you are just making some holes, you don’t have to worry about these problems. For example, the paper embroidery tutorial using ordinary pins on the paper art website: Paper embroidery stars [can be used as paper art card decoration]< /p>
Second type: beading needle. Beading needles are actually mainly used in bead making. However, because its top is curved, it is flat and suitable for manual handling, so it is often used in paper craft DIY production. Because it is often relatively thick, it is more secure in fixing paper art works, but the requirements for the backing board are slightly higher.some. The tutorial on using beading needles to make paper quilling works on the paper art website is: Paper quilling guitar hand-making tutorial
The third type: colored beading needles. This kind of beading needle has a colored plastic ball installed on the top of the needle. Generally speaking, they are colorful, so during the production process, they can not only be used as ordinary pins to fix the entire handmade paper art production. At the same time, it can also play a decorative role after the final handmade paper art work is completed. Especially when used in the decoration of paper ball flowers, the effect is surprisingly good. Tutorial on paper ball flowers decorated with colored beading needles on the paper art website: Illustrated tutorial on paper art roll flowers and paper ball flowers
The fourth type: white or silver beads. This is the same principle as the previous colored beading needle. Only the colored balls at the top have been replaced with white or silver balls, which look like pearls. They can be replaced according to different handmade paper crafts.
In short, pins, beading needles, beading needles, positioning needles, and beading needles, although their names are different, and the tools they specifically refer to are also slightly different, but they play an important role in paper art handmade production. The functions are similar and they are all indispensable parts of the Paper Craft Tools family!