I don't know what this is called, it's to do with threading beads.

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I want some beads on a thread, not in a loop like a necklace but just a straight line, for example like a light pull in a bathroom. I want each bead tightly on the thread. I saw a video once of someone doing it and it involved threading beads onto the thread then somehow looping round and round, each time another layer of thread was added in the loop until the beads were quite tight and on say 6 strands of thread.

I don't know what it's called and Google is just coming up with making necklaces etc.

Is it macrame? You can add beads to the intricate knots.

Is it something like shamballa bracelets where the bead is kind of partly wrapped in the thread?

No, I just want a string of beads tightly in one row, I want each individual bead on tightly so they can't be moved without some effort. No knots except at either end.

Imagine having a needle and thread and putting some beads on. Then another needle and thread and thread them again so there are two strands through the beads. Then again and again until they are tight. But there is a way to thread them just once.

Thick thread?

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Ha ha No!

I have seen a video of it being done so it definitely is a thing.

Imagine wrapping thread round your two index fingers. Then kind of 'cycling' your fingers so on each turn you now have an extra strand of thread, then another on the next turn, and while you are doing that the beads are somehow having these extra strands through the centre, until you have so much thread that the beads do not flow freely but you have to individually push them along. Then stop, cut the thread and you have a length of threads all beaded, but tightly. Knot the threads at the top and bottom with the beads in the middle.

Imagine this. But you don't have a thick shoelace, you only have fine thread. But the beads will move too much with fine thread, so you want to use the fine thread times 10 so you have to physically push each bead.

Interesting idea, but no idea how you'd do it.

Bumping to see if anyone else knows what I'm talking about?

Peyote?

Or do you mean that the knot between the beads moves up and down?

Or it is just a series of sliding beads? This is bothering me. Can you tell?

Kumihimo?

No it's none of those. There is no knot between each bead, they are just threaded on thread all together. But it's not just one thread, it's multiple strands of thread. It's so many strands of thread that the beads are not able to run freely along it, they have to be pushed along. Just a knot at the top and bottom with beads in between.

There is a way of just somehow threading them on one strand of thread then by some hocus pocus pulling them along, somehow adding another loop of thread, and another...

The end result is like a short shoelace with tightly fitting beads on it. But it's not a shoelace, it's multiple strands of thread, and it's almost like a magic trick type of thing.