How to Make a Braided Black Leather Necklace Tutorial

Every girl loves to be beautiful, besides me. I love to braid many different hair styles to dress up myself. Today I come up with an idea that I can apply braided techniques to make a unique braided necklace. What's more, I add some wire wrapped bead dangles to, making it more charming! Just keep reading and see specific instructions.

Materials needed in braided black leather necklace:

Iron Twisted Chains
Cat Eye Beads
Alloy Skull Charm Pendant
Iron Eyepins
Leather Cord
Synthetic Turquoise Beads
0.5mm Golden Copper Wire
Golden Lobster Claw Clasp
Iron Ribbon End
Wire Cutting Plier
Flat Plier
Round Nose Plier

Instructions for braided black leather necklace

Step 1: Make basic braided black leather necklace

1st, prepare 8 appropriate length of black leather cord, add an iron ribbon end to fix one end of the cord;
2nd, separate strands into 4 groups;
3rd, pass leftmost group over, under, and over adjoining groups in order;

4th, pass second group, count from the rightmost group over and under the adjoining groups;
5th, pass third group, count from the leftmost group over and under the adjoining groups;

6th, continue the pattern until you reach the idea length;

7th, add an iron ribbon end to bind the other end of leather cords;
8th, cut a short iron twisted chain, add an alloy skull charm pendant to one end of chain, attach the other end of the chain to an iron ribbon end.

Step 2: Finish making braided black leather necklace

1st, attach a jump ring and a lobster claw clasp to the other iron ribbon end;
2nd, prepare some synthetic turquoise beads, string a synthetic turquoise bead with an iron eyepin, attach it to the right place a braided leather cord, and make a loop in the end;

3rd, cut an appropriate length of 0.5mm golden copper wire, wire some circles to cover the small loop of bead dangle in the bottom;
4th, wrap some circles to the body of the bead;
5th, attach another 6 wire wrapped bead dangles to the braided leather cord;
6th, string four cat eye beads to headpins.

7th, make loops in the end and attach them to braided leather cord next to wire wrapped bead dangles.

The final look of braided black leather necklace is look like this:

Do you think my braided black leather necklace is beautiful? Whatever, I love it very much. Actually you can applying other braided techniques and choose some other charming beads and make a new look braided necklace.