What are millgrain tools? Beading tools? I keep seeing them in
the catalogs, and I can’t figure out what they are for.
Hi Sandy,
Beading tools are used to round over the beads or grains in, for
example, pavee settings; the millgrain tools are tiny wheels
turning on the end of a shaft, with a row of semicircular
depressions around the circumference, and are used to make -
guess - milligrains (French millegriffe - a thousand beads),
which is a line of very small beads on the edge of settings, by
rolling (and pressing down) the tool over the sharp edge. Used
extensively in traditional diamond jewellery. Hope you got an
idea, Markus