RAW Stitch Basics

In this Tutorial I will be going over the Right Angle Weave Stitch, also known as the RAW stitch. This is a good stitch when making a loopy piece, a uniform piece, or a fast piece. this one is one of my go to stitches when beading because of how simple it is while looking quite elegant. It also can be heavily edited and used to build off of other stitches.

What We will need for this tutorial is:

Thread
A Needle- beading preferred but not necessary.
Seed Beads- I am using 8/0 or 2mm for this tutorial, but you can use whatever size comfortably goes through your needle.
Scissors
Larger out of place bead- stopper bead.

First let us get our materials ready, cut about an arms length of thread and thread the needle, add an out of place bead, I usually go with a larger round bead that is quite different in color, and use it as a stopper 4+ inches from the end. I always like having lots of room on the end of pieces, and the larger the piece the longer the end, that way if I mess something up I can go back and fix it and not have to go all the way back.


With the needle threaded and the stopper on, add 8 seed beads and put them right against the stopper.

Next go through the whole row through the first seed bead first. It should make a circle like this.

 Now we will go through the next four in the circle again, then add 6 more seed beads.

Next go through the last 2 beads of the last square, in this picture the white ones.

Then through the next 4 beads in the new circle, in this example the gold beads.













Now you have your first two squares.

From here you can keep going in a chain, or go in any direction for the squares, and this stitch can be edited a lot to work however you want it to.

In future tutorials I will show different changes you can do to the RAW stitch, but this one should get you started.