Description
This Beadalon Jewel Loom kit is great for making beaded bracelets and learning new weaving techniques. You can create your own pattern for infinite creativity. This will make a perfect gift!
Make your own beaded bracelets and learn new weaving techniques. You can create your own pattern for infinite creativit
This jewely loom kit is simple and straightforward to set up and makes the perfect gift!
The sleek design with a work surface of 2. 75 in wide and 10. 5 in long is perfect for creating fashionable, on-trend jewelry pieces
Appropriate for Any Skill Level The Jewel Loom is easy enough to use for the true beginner, yet offers unlimited possibilities for the more experienced designer
Portable Lightweight and minimal in size, the Jewel Loom makes it easy to pick up your project and take it with you anywhere
Customers say
Customers find the art craft kit easy to use and simple to set up. They say it works great and is fun for beginners. Customers appreciate that it’s portable, compact, and convenient to place in their laps. They also like the design, value for money, and size. However, some customers have reported that the product broke in the middle.
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ocean dreamer –
It’s easy to use & I had beautiful results with a …
I’d give 4.5 if I could; It’s easy to use & I had beautiful results with a 11-bead row bracelet from a kit. The only thing that I don’t like is that when the rod is in place for using, the loom bows & rocks, making it a bit “snooty” to get the 1st couple of rows on, so I placed a length of tape across the middle to hold it down= easy fix for me!. Once the first 2 rows are on, the beads pop right in between the warps & rocking is more tolerable. The weaving moves right along. I wish there had been more than just the 1 needle, as either a 65-mile drive to the nearest craft store, or wait for an order from online. . . . It does work well & I like it for bracelets. I will use my Indian loom for longer pieces–e.g. belts or dog collars, etc. Do like this size for bracelets & convenience. I give 4.5 stars!
Janis Foster –
Good Beading Loom.
Had a previous one, but it went missing during a move. This is the replacement. Now I have a case for it! Great idea.
Diane Erickson –
Bead loom
Have tried many different looms. This one was the best out all others. I have another one in my que.
S. Tan –
Excelllent loom!
I used to have a wooden loom which was tedious to set up and the tension was always loose. My mother-in-law showed me this loom and it’s wonderful! It is so easy to use and set up, you can start looming within minutes. It comes with a storage case, which makes it easy to pack up and store with a few beading needles. It is not necessarily big enough to store a project but it is self-contained. My daughter now loves using it and is churning out bracelets for her friends!
Sneaky Burrito –
I think this could work well for a beginner
I have a couple of those craft-store generic beading looms with the black metal frames and the wooden cylinders, but I bought this on a whim after viewing the Look Inside preview of the “Jewel Loom Inspirations” companion book for this item.So far, I am happy with it. I have finished a couple of bracelets in vastly different styles. I still need to work on my finishing technique, but I keep going back to this instead of abandoning it like so many other craft items I’ve bought in the past, so that is worth something. My favorite thing is the versatility.First I used some Greek leather as warp threads and made a Chan Luu style wrap bracelet with some glass and gemstone rounds. I will say, you should probably only try to do single wraps if that is what you are interested in. Because this has a maximum working length of around 10 inches or so. I have 5.25 inch wrists (pretty tiny, I know) and I tried doing a double wrap (figuring my clasp would add length) and it was quite tight fitting at the end. So, lengthwise, this is good for single bracelets. Unlike with other styles of loom, there’s not a way to string longer warp threads and move the work. I’ve also used various threads/cords suggested by the designer of the loom in the Jewel Loom Inspirations book, to good effect.I am actually not using this for traditional round seed beads. I saw photos of pieces using 2-hole square beads, gemstone rounds, etc. made with this loom, and one thing I loved was the idea of working with nontraditional beads in looming. (Plus, with bigger beads, the pieces work up faster!) I made a fun bracelet with 4mm Miyuki glass cubes and am now doing a staggered pattern with 2-hole Miyuki Tila squares.This is pretty easy to add the warp threads to, especially if you read the directions. I can’t emphasize this enough. I was having major issues until I read the directions and realized I was doing it wrong. Do ONE warp thread at a time, wrap around the “button” on the back, then do the next one. I think this is a pretty good loom for beginners.This comes with a plastic zipper pouch (good for keeping track of the metal bar when it is not in use), a needle threader (I don’t use it, but it is there if you want it), a long needle (useful, especially for pieces using the full width of the loom), and instructions (I used the Jewel Loom Inspirations book for those because they are full color). If something happens to the needle (I have not had any issues), you can buy beading needles elsewhere and use those instead.But, this product is not perfect. For one, it is very hard to remove the metal bar after you’ve got your warp threads set up. The angles of the bent parts on the ends are just wrong for actually coming out of the holes where the bar goes. You have to bend the loom into an even deeper curve and the metal bar scrapes up the plastic around the edges of the holes. Strictly speaking, you don’t have to remove the bar, even though the instructions say to. If you look at the Fire Mountain seed beading catalog, they have a demonstration of the Jewel Loom in use, and whoever set that up added beads without removing the bar. Plus, I didn’t remove the bar for my first bracelet and everything turned out OK. (If you have the warp threads tight enough, the bowing of the plastic piece won’t change all that much with or without the bar present.)I do worry about bending stiff plastic like this. Mine has shown no indication that it is going to break, but I don’t expect this to last years and years, either. Also, for what it’s worth, this does not really fit in the palm of your hand as advertised. However, that’s all right for me because it is easier for me to use if I set it on a table so I have both hands free for manipulating beads and the needle.In the end, I’m happy with this, but it does have some flaws, as discussed above. I think it would be a good choice for a beginner because it is inexpensive, you can work up some cute projects pretty quickly (especially with larger beads), and it lets you see if beaded loomwork is something you even like doing.