hi I'm Sarah the designer for jewelry supply.com today I'm going to show you how to do basic pearl knotting the knotting technique is a technique that's commonly associated with pearls and when you see higher quality strands of pearls that have been made into jewelry you'll frequently see a knot in between each one of them this is also a technique that's really great for gemstones or beads that you may have that have sentimental quality how you knot between each one of them is like this take your cord or the pearls that you've already knotted in between and hold it in your non-dominant hand for me that's my left hand take the cord and your right and make a simple overhand loop just like this now we're going to make a knot out of it take your tweezers I'm going to pull the loop over on my side and put your tweezers through the loop just like this grab the cord right next to the purl and if you have to you can pull on the cord ever so slightly just to get a really firm hold on that take the cord and pull tight right down the end of the tweezers now grab the cord and with your thumb nail put it right next to the side of that knot ever so gently wiggle the tweezers out of the knot and close the knot completely by pulling on the cord and pushing the not into that pearl with your thumb nail that's how you do that here it is again going to string the last pearl against the knot that I just made take the Pearl in my non-dominant hand wrap an overhand loop like this take my tweezers go through the loop and grab hold of the core it right next to the pearl now take the loop and close it into a knot grab the cord take your thumb nail right next to that not pull out the tweezers and ever so gently pull the knot closed and press with your thumb nail to make sure it's really tight just continue on with that same technique all the way down the line until your whole necklace or your bracelet is complete now you may be thinking to yourself well why would I want to not in between each one of my pearls or gemstones or beads the reason for that is really quite simple we all know what happens when a strand of beads breaks it usually goes everywhere well if a strand of pearls break only one will fall some other tips to think about try to make sure that the cord between each of your pearls is fairly close to the color pearl that you're using in this case I have gray cord in between each one of these blue pearls over here I have burgandy in between each one of these burgandy pearls