I made two more beaded bails for a couple of pendants.
The black onyx pendant is a beautiful teardrop shape with a gold engraving of Mandarin ducks. I used a hexagon-shaped bail this time for a change.
I placed 2mm round fire polished crystals at the front and back hexagon parts as there is a hole from the original six-bead ring.
This crystal is a small phantom quartz, so the bail has to be smaller. I made two 3-row triangles and connected one side with flat peyote. Just a simple piece.
Today I'm making beaded bails for four beautiful stones so they can be used as pendants. This is a nice alternative to the ready made metal bails available out there.
This is the first stone done. This is a beautiful teardrop shaped rutilated quartz, around 32mm x 22mm.
The bail is basically made up of two small triangles, just around four rows. Then I connected the two triangles on one side with peyote stitch, around five rows. This will allow any thickness of chain or rope to go through the bail.
Then I closed it by adding size 15 seed beads on the point of one triangle, through the hole in the stone, and the same number of beads through the point of the other triangle. I run the thread through the same way another time and this closes the bail.
Two rutilated quartz pendants with beaded triangular bails.
