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Handmade Necklaces

Category: <span>Handmade Necklaces</span>

Transform an outfit with a unique handmade necklace. Whether beaded, silver or both, start with one of our necklace ideas to accent your style. Show off your beaded beads, flower jewelry, handmade pendants and more. You can even make your own chain!

Browse through these necklace projects and inspirations to create your own statement.

Unique Handmade Necklaces

Samples of 3 tubular herringbone ropes

How to Make Tubular Herringbone Beaded Jewelry

Tubular Herringbone (sometimes called Ndebele) stitch creates sinuous beaded ropes that await your creativity to design bracelets, necklaces and more. It can be a fussy stitch to get started, but...

Copper wire mixed gemstone wire wrapped pendant

How to Make a Wire Wrapped Pendant

A simple spool of wire has so much potential! Pair it with a beautiful stone or five, and you can create a one-of-a-kind pendant to hang on a necklace chain....

Cellini Spiral Detail

Peyote Stitch Cellini Spiral Basics

Peyote-Stitched Cellini Spiral looks really complicated, but it’s just a glorified peyote rope. The stitch is even count tubular peyote with a step up. It’s the change in bead sizes...

More Handmade Necklaces

Pat Herkal

Spotlight: Pat Herkal, Bead and Fiber Artist

Beads, thread and fabric occupy Pat Herkal's head and hands every day. Whimsy, color and the natural world inspire her work. Mixing beads, shells, stones, and found objects - man…
PharEwings The Beast necklace

Spotlight: Pharewings, Chainmaille Artist

Phare's first encounter with chainmaille was being a chainmaille bikini model, and then she found her calling. A creative spirit across many mediums, she is now a full-time chainmaille artist…
Chaos enamelled bracelets

Spotlight: Karen Meador, Jewelry Artist

Karen Meador's gorgeous jewelry designs combine wirework, metal folding, cabochons and enamel. She blends techniques in creative ways to make color and texture sing. How did you get started making…
Shaped Peyote Gemstone Pendants

Beaded Gemstone Capture Jewelry

Rhodochrosite Beaded Necklace is an original design stitched using off-loom beadweaving techniques. Rhodochrosite. Peyote stitch. 20" chain. Sterling clasp.
Double finger ring from Knuckle Kiss jewelry

Spotlight: Angela Delarmente & Knuckle Kiss Jewelry

Angela Delarmente of Knuckle Kiss Jewelry is a Seattle-based designer making handcrafted, modern jewelry using traditional metalsmithing techniques.
multi-color Bead tube necklace

Peyote Stitch Bead Tube Necklaces

I started to make a bracelet, but I had so much fun making Peyote stitch bead tubes, I made a necklace! I strung and crimped my woven beads with other…
Easy wire and gemstone earrings

Easy Wire and Gemstone Earrings and Pendants

Arrange gemstones on headpins and top with a wire wrap loop. You can make your own earring wires. and add chain and clasps for the necklaces. Easy gifts!
Special Occasion Multistrand Necklace

How to Design a Multistrand Strung Necklace

Each multistrand necklace makes its own statement with bead choice -. African trade beads, semi-precious gems, pearls and/or crystals. Add cones, chain, clasp.
Close up of the peyote tube used as the toggle

Netting and Fringe Beaded Lariat

I really have to pay attention when I bead with netting stitch! The black beads helped me keep track of the pattern. The peyote toggle clasp keeps it secure.

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