Create Beautiful Beaded Jewelry with the Darice 1012-24 Bead Loom

Miryam: Muy endeblito, descalzado y no muy útil. No es para hacer joyeria profesional es más bien para niños

Spain on Mar 11, 2023

Rosemary Milham: Bought as a new craft project

United Kingdom on Apr 21, 2021

sandra: Se hace más fácilmente las pulseras ,lo malo que puedo decir que es muy justo, yo tengo la muñeca pequeña y aun así termino la pulsera y me falta un poco ,pero como van los cierres ,no pasa nada , pero otra persona que tenga la muñeca grande no le saldrá a su medida .

Spain on Nov 26, 2020

KILLER INSTINCT: Este producto fue enviado desde U.S.A. Llego en perfectas condiciones. Para las personas que son principiantes, este telar deben comprar. Recuerden que este instrumento no es para elaborar collares, solo te va a servir para hacer pulseras. Este telar cuenta con instructivo en español y trae consigo 3 bolsas de chaquiras, 1 bolsa chaquira de color blanca, 1 bolsa chaquira de color negra y la última bolsa chaquiras combinadas. El precio es accesible. Recuerden la practica hace al maestro. No le pongo 5 estrellas porque hay telares más grandes, con poca diferencia en precio.

Mexico on Nov 02, 2016

Mr. D. S. Rehal: Value for money. Thanks.

United Kingdom on Apr 27, 2016

Zip: For this price, you are not getting a super high quality set of supplies, nor should you expect to. However, I got this to test it out, to see if I enjoyed it enough to invest more. For that purpose, it is great. However, that's pretty much all. Any real beadwork will require a larger loom. The needles broke before I ran out of beads. The beads (and holes) are all different sizes, which presents it's own challenge on the loom. And the cotton thread is good for warp but less good for weft. So, as craft supplies, this is very subpar. But as a $6 experiment to see if further investment is worthwhile, this is great.

United States on Mar 04, 2016

Christian J.: My unit is a bit warped and bent and arrived that way. The box wasn't terribly crushed or damaged in shipping so I imagine this is a quality issue. I am not an advanced at beading but I have experience. The loom is ok for very small loom projects like small cuff bracelets or earrings. As the other reviewers said, The amount of beads the loom comes with is too small for most any project I could think of. The thread included is not quality. I would not use it on any project I intended to last. The needles(2 included) are NOT appropriate needles for bead looming. The needles included are small sewing needles. For seed beads, it is necessary to have much smaller needle eyes for passing thread through the tiny seed beads. I thought it was odd that these were what was included but again; this loom didn't cost hardly anything so my expectation was already fairly low. Overall, I would say this loom is ok for the money spent. You get what you pay for. I would not at all consider this a complete starter set so plan on getting your own beading thread, needles and beads.

United States on Aug 29, 2015

Kat: This was my first foray into the world of bead weaving, and this is a great way of getting introduced to it without getting overly invested in it! This loom is clearly super-low quality, and the metal of the frame itself doesn't seem particularly sturdy and somewhat bendy... which kind of works to your favor when doing things like tightening the rollers on the end, because if it were too firm they wouldn't be able to be tightened into place. I will say that I basically hate the spring that you pass your threads through because it's difficult to position them in it properly from the get go and they are both too short and loose to hold a thread well and too closely spaced to easily get in there and grab out a thread that might have jumped to its neighboring gap. I kind of solved this problem by shoving about 1/4 of a wooden skewer into the leftover space above the threads, inside the looped spring.... This helped it, but I thought it was a pretty ghetto way of solving such a silly problem.

United States on Aug 21, 2015

Martha Dillon: First, it's much easier to use this with a hard needle (like the one that comes with it). I like the big eye needles that are flexible, mostly because they're easier to thread. I learned quickly that I can use the needle threader and a longer needle but the harder needle will make it SO much easier to use this loom. You need to thread one more thread than the total number of beads you want in a row, and the threads will show along both sides, so you need to use either a clear thread or plan to use a matching thread. You could also add a row of beads along the sides, like a picot stitch.

Bracelets made with this loom are flexible and soft, very comfortable to wear. When deciding on a clasp or finishing technique, I chose to go for ribbon crimp ends, rather than the knots on the ends. You can also use other things - check online on You Tube to see the different ways to end friendship bracelets and leather cord bracelets for ideas.

United States on Feb 19, 2014

KMKM: I wanted to try beading, so ordered this kit for a first try, as it said it included everything. Well, I suppose it did, but only if you consider less than a tablespoon of the tiniest beads in the history of the world to be enough to make a bracelet. OMG, I had no idea how tiny these things were going to be. Saying they're the size of the head of a pin is not an overstatement. (See my pics I posted above.)

The kit incuded 2 needles that are small enough to get through the holes in the tiny, tiny beads, but roughly one in 5 beads couldn't fit the threaded-needle through, so, since you have to pass the threaded needle through twice to weave the beads, I had to toss about 20% of the beads. The thread they give you seems sturdy enough, but it's multiple strands, twisted, and since the beads are so very tiny, when you run the needle through the second time to weave, the needle often peirces the thread, and gets stuck, forcing you to unweave the whole row, to get back to where you peirced it - or leave the mess and move on. I started out being very concsiencious, and trying to fix every piercing, but after several hours, I just started moving on when it happened.

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United States on Apr 21, 2012