| Hi knotty
I too, am wearing a bracelet 24/7 that gets the same treatment yours does. I don't worry about the silk, because I used PowerPro beading thread. How about we both take "before" phots and then "after" photos? In what, one month? six months?
If silk doesn't stretch when properly prepared, then why do all the care of pearl paragraphs tell you not to let the silk stretch? You are saying that most of those pros out there do not know how to prepare silk?
Maybe I would have a higher opinion of silk for beading if someone had told me I don't know how to prepare silk.......I'm thinking of the 16mm "lumps of coal" necklace. I used beeswax. I stretched the silk wet. (It was Gudebrod spool silk from Bella Findings). I strung the necklace which was quite heavy and 24" long. It started stretching in the first 10 minutes I wore it! I pouted over here immediately and got told to stretch the silk wet.........
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Caitlin  potamilus purpuratus American Pearl Mussel Where can I get a pearl from this mussel?
Last edited by Caitlin; 02-25-2008 at 05:40 PM.
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