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Bramble Berries
Realistic miniature blackberries are easy to make for scale scenes as garnishes, for garden settings, or as trim for period hats. This is one dolls house food that isn’t made with polymer clay! The blackberries are based on no hole beads or microbeads, and you can add them to miniature pie shells, or use them to fill tiny fruit baskets or punnets. If you don't want to always make your berries from no hole beads, you can use alternate methods to make drupe berries in miniature (blackberries, raspberries, loganberries etc.) using a basic shape and a simple two part silicone putty mold.
To make these miniature black berries for a dolls house scene you will need:
- Black Microbeads - (0.5mm) no hole beads. Other colors (wine red and green) if you want even more realistic berries! These are available from scrapbook stores or online.
- Sewing Thread - white (for berry centers if berries are on their own) or green if berries are to be clustered as if on stems.
- PVA Glue – white glue, thin works better for this project than does thick glue.
- A Round Sided Bead Holder - I use a plastic flower palette for paints but you can substitute any small shape with rounded sides, a teaspoon measure for example. The rounded sides run the beads back down into the centre which makes them easier to work with
Good results with miniature blackberries in dolls house scales depends on using small amounts of glue. If you are making blackberries you want the glue to allow for 4-6 beads up the sides of the berry, if you are making Loganberries, Marionberries, or any of the other longer berry types, you may want more glue.
- Squeeze out a bit of PVA (white or craft) glue into a depression on the flower palette or other glue holder.
- You can cut thread lengths of 1/2 to 3/4 inch lengths to use for each berry, or cut the berry off a longer thread when you have formed it, choose whichever method is easiest for you.
- Dip the end of the thread into your glue to test how thick it is. You want a tiny blob of glue to be on the end of the thread (less than 1/16 of an inch or 1mm). Use green thread for berries on stems, white thread for berries which will be displayed picked. See the photo above for the correct amount of glue.
- Thin your glue if necessary, then proceed to the next step.
Have a pair of fine tweezers handy to adjust your miniature dolls house blackberries if necessary. (Some people can manage this with their fingers)
- Dip the thread with it’s blob of glue gently into the microbeads. Roll it around a bit to get beads on the end and all sides of the thread up to the depth of your glue blob.
- Remove the thread from the beads and check to see that you have beads on the end and all sides. If you are missing some areas, add a bit more glue with the tip of a pin, and dip again.
- Shape the berry so that it is more or less even and looks proportional to a real berry (has 3-4 layers of beads up each side). Use tweezers or your fingers to squeeze any stray beads into place.
- Cut the thread far enough away from the berry that you can handle it (about 1/2 inch?) and set the berry aside to dry. Make as many berries as you want, the basket of berries shown had a false layer of beads beneath a top layer of berries.
- When the berries are dry on the thread, cut the thread just at the top of the beads for picked berries or cut the threads to 1/4 of an inch in length and glue the threads at the ends (make them different lengths) to form clusters of berries.
Dollhouse Miniature Blackberries are very small, so show them off against a good background!
Berries in a Basket – Create a false bottom for a berry basket by folding a piece of paper to fit in the basket. Spread a thin layer of glue on top of the paper insert and cover it with beads. Set it inside the basket when it is completely dry and arrange your finished berries on top.
Berries on Food – To make sure the berries don’t look like caviar try to separate some of them out to show off their shape. You can use Tar Gel acrylic medium mixed with a bit of water color paint to create a sauce for your berries. That is what has been used on the waffles for the maple syrup. The melting whipped cream shown on these waffles is made from another acrylic medium, Soft gel medium which was mixed with white acrylic paint to form soft peaks and runny edges as if the whipped cream were melting.
Berries for decoration on hats, wreaths, etc. – Berries on green thread can be combined in clusters by gluing ¼ inch threads together to form clusters. Tiny rose leaves, punched from green paper, with their edges serrated by small cuts with scissors, can be coated with gloss acrylic finish and bent when dry to resemble blackberry leaves. Glue one or two berry clusters to a main stalk and cover the joins with leaves attached to the stalk.
Final Tip – To make really realistic blackberries, try to have one or two wine or green beads at the tip of some berries, or make entire berries from these colors to add to clusters. Many blackberries are not completely ripe when they are picked!