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Bead Caps

Designed by Michael G. LaFosse from traditional bases

Bead Caps are used for decorative contrast, setting an additional right triangle perpendicular to those two displayed in the Square Bead. It may also serve to secure one or two corners of a Square Bead for mounting purposes, and to add more colors and shapes to a piece of jewelry consisting of several Square Beads.

Here we present several styles of Bead Caps: Triangle, Square, Pentagon, and Fiesta (see facing page). You may develop more variations on your own; experimenting with different sizes of Bead Caps will alter the look. Thinner papers usually produce the best looking Bead Caps.

1. Begin with the display side up. Valley-fold in half, bottom corner to top. Unfold. Turn over and rotate 45 degrees.

2. Valley-fold in half, edge to edge both ways, unfolding after each. Rotate 45 degrees.

3. Valley-fold the top and bottom corners to meet at the center, where the creases intersect.

4. Use the existing creases to collapse the form, moving the left and right corners to the bottom.

5. Valley-fold the bottom corners up, tucking them inside the paper, forming two triangle-shaped interior tabs.

6. Fit one corner of a Square Bead into the Bead Cap. Use the two interior tabs of the Bead Cap to align the pieces, fitting them into the corner pockets of the Square Bead. Use a little glue or paste to secure the cap permanently.

7. The completed Triangle Bead Cap on a Square Bead.

Bead Cap Variations

Here is the Pentagon Bead Cap (see the folding method described in the sidebar). See page 26 for a Fish-Shaped Bead that showcases this cap.

Square Bead Cap: Omit the corner folds at step 3, and then proceeding to collapse the shape and fold the two tabs inside. Attach as in step 6.

Fan-folding the free corner of a Square Bead Cap makes a lovely triangle pattern, called “Fiesta.” This is especially effective when using paper that is colored differently on each side.

Pentagon Bead Cap

1. Fold Triangle Bead Cap steps 1 and 2; at step 3, fold the top and bottom corners only to the level indicated by the crease-ends, marked by the “X” arrowhead in the diagram.

2. Use the existing creases to collapse the form, moving the left and right corners to the bottom.

3. Valley-fold the bottom corners up, tucking them inside the paper, forming two triangle-shaped interior tabs.

4. The completed Pentagon Bead Cap, attached to a square bead using the method demonstrated in step 6.