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Adding a Lamp bead to a Spiral Rope

In the directions below, the new added thread path from the last frame is shown in red. new beads added are outlined in green. Again this is the type of spiral rope with a 8/0 core bead and 5 11/0 seed beads added in each cyle as explained in Reinforcing a spiral Rope.

1. After the spiral rope has reached sufficient length, add a 6/0 seed, then the lamp bead, then another 6/0 seed onto the thread. Sometimes you can use a 8/0 as buffer beads, but lamp beads tend to have big holes because of the mandrel they are made on. the purpose of the buffer beads is to keep the seed beads out of the big hole of the lamp beads.

2. Add one 8/0 seed bead, and 2 11/0 seed beads to the thread and looping along the outside of the 8/0 seed bead. go back through then 6/0 buffer bead, the lamp bead, the other 6/0 seed bead, and 3 8/0 core beads, then emerge.

3. Add 5 11/0 seed (or as pictured 2 11/0 seeds, a Czech teardrop, then 2 more 11/0 seeds. Looping along the outside, enter the the 6/0 buffer bead, the lamp bead, the other 6/0 buffer bead, then emrge trhough the 8/0 seed bead added in frame 2.

4. Add a 8/0 core bead, 4 11/0 seeds onto the thread. Loop back through by entering the 6/0 buffer bead, the lamp bead, the other 6/0 buffer bead, then through 2 8/0 core beads before re-emerging.

5. Add 4 11/0 seeds onto the thread, then loop bacj trhough by entering the 6/0 buffer bead, the lamp bead, tthe other buffer bead, and 2 8/0 core beads before re-emerging.

6. This frame show hopw now one 8/0 core bead, 2 11/0 seeds, a teardrop bead, and 2 11/0 sseds have been added onto the thread.

7. The beads added in frame 6 are outline in green now. You loop through the 6/0 seed, through the lamp bead, the other 6/0 buffer bead, and through 2 8/0 core beads before emrging.

8. You add 4 11/0 seeds onto the thread, and enter the 6/0 buffer bead, the lamp bead, the other buffer bead and through 3 8/0 core beads.

9. Hopefully you are getting the idea how you are adding shortened segments of the shell to either side of the lamp bead so that by going back and forth like this there is enough thread to support the weight of the lamp bead. The last 2 additons are shown in this frame. You add one 8/0 core bead2 11/0 seeds, a teardop, 2 11/0 seeds then enter the buffer bead go back though so that this time you only go though one 8/0 bead. Add 2 11/0 seeds. Enter the buffer bead and come through to the other side though the last 8/0 core bead. now yoiu resume patteern of the spiral rope.

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	1. After the spiral rope has reached sufficient length, add a 6/0 seed, then the lamp bead, then another 6/0 seed onto the thread. Sometimes you can use a 8/0 as buffer beads, but lamp beads tend to have big holes because of the mandrel they are made on. the purpose of the buffer beads is to keep the seed beads out of the big hole of the lamp beads.
	2. Add one 8/0 seed bead, and 2 11/0 seed beads to the thread and looping along the outside of the 8/0 seed bead. go back through then 6/0 buffer bead, the lamp bead, the other 6/0 seed bead, and 3 8/0 core beads, then emerge.
	3. Add 5 11/0 seed (or as pictured 2 11/0 seeds, a Czech teardrop, then 2 more 11/0 seeds. Looping along the outside, enter the the 6/0 buffer bead, the lamp bead, the other 6/0 buffer bead, then emrge trhough the 8/0 seed bead added in frame 2.
	4. Add a 8/0 core bead, 4 11/0 seeds onto the thread. Loop back through by entering the 6/0 buffer bead, the lamp bead, the other 6/0 buffer bead, then through 2 8/0 core beads before re-emerging.
	5. Add 4 11/0 seeds onto the thread, then loop bacj trhough by entering the 6/0 buffer bead, the lamp bead, tthe other buffer bead, and 2 8/0 core beads before re-emerging.
	6. This frame show hopw now one 8/0 core bead, 2 11/0 seeds, a teardrop bead, and 2 11/0 sseds have been added onto the thread.
	7. The beads added in frame 6 are outline in green now. You loop through the 6/0 seed, through the lamp bead, the other 6/0 buffer bead, and through 2 8/0 core beads before emrging.
	8. You add 4 11/0 seeds onto the thread, and enter the 6/0 buffer bead, the lamp bead, the other buffer bead and through 3 8/0 core beads.
	9. Hopefully you are getting the idea how you are adding shortened segments of the shell to either side of the lamp bead so that by going back and forth like this there is enough thread to support the weight of the lamp bead. The last 2 additons are shown in this frame. You add one 8/0 core bead2 11/0 seeds, a teardop, 2 11/0 seeds then enter the buffer bead go back though so that this time you only go though one 8/0 bead. Add 2 11/0 seeds. Enter the buffer bead and come through to the other side though the last 8/0 core bead. now yoiu resume patteern of the spiral rope.