How to Make a Fresh Water Pearl Bracelet | Making Jewelry

Watch more Making Jewelry videos: Hi, I’m Tam, and we’re going to make a freshwater pearl bracelet. Real pearls, like freshwater pearls or South Sea pearls, you want to knot them so that they don’t bang into each other and damage the pearl. It depends on how valuable your pearls are, but most pearl jewelry is knotted for this reason. So I’ve already strung on all of my pearls, and I put them in sort of the order I kind of like. I’m using a mix of natural color. Well, these are all natural, but these are natural white and natural gray, and I’ve sort of put them in the order that I want to them look on a gray cord.