Step One:
Ready to make a tie chain? Lets start. The first step is easy; take 148 of your 154 1/8" ID rings and make two 2.75" strands of byzantine. Each strand should be finished (have ends as shown) and use 74 rings.

Step Two:
These next few steps will teach you how to add the beads. Put down your two strands of byzantine for the time being, and find your round nose pliers and the 2-2.5" piece of 22 gauge wire. Because we are using such thin wire for this, we are going to make the finding slightly different than the ones on the adding a bead page. Take your piece of wire and grab one end in your round nose pliers, about 1/4" back from the tip (will vary based on your pliers, you want the diameter of the cone where you are holding the wire to be about 3/32"). Now, begin by twisting the pliers 180 degrees around to fold the wire back over itself and create a loop. Next, remove the pressure from the wire, turn your pliers back to where they were, grab the wire again, and repeat. Instead of a normal single loop, this should give you a loop that is halfway doubled for extra strength. If you have not done much beadwork before and find you are having trouble with this step, a single loop will work fine, it will just be a little weaker (so don't abuse your tie chain!).

Step Three:
Now, looking at our piece of wire ______O the side towards the top of your screen with the loop in it is the top, and the flat side towards the bottom of the screen is the bottom. Place one cone of your round nose pliers into the loop, and the other on the bottom of the flat wire, righ at the edge of the loop. Pull downwards (towards the bottom) slightly on your wire until the straight part is coming out of the middle of the loop instead of the bottom, ------O. See the real pictures if my ASCII drawings don't make sense. :-)

Once you have the loop made and in place just string on the beads as shown in the picture, small ones on the outside, large one on the inside.

Step Four:
Now we have to make the straight side match the loop side to hold the stones in place. Make sure the beads are right against the first loop, then grab the straight side of the wire with your round nose pliers, again about 1/4" back from the tip. There should be about 1/16" worth of space between the edge of your pliers and the first bead. Now, rather than turning the pliers, grab the end of the wire away from the beads in your other hand, and pull it around the pliers towards the beads, making a loop. Now, continue around for about another half circle, then cut the end off the wire so that the loop matches the one made in step 2. Next, just bend this loop back as you did to the other one in step 3, and your done with the beadwork.

Step Five:
Things should be fairly simple from here on out. The next thing to do is switch back to your chain nose pliers, and attach the byzantine strands to the loops in the ends of your bead finding. Just re-open the two rings in either end of your first byzantine strand and place them through the hole in one end of the finding, then close them back up and repeat on the other side with the other strand.

Step Six:
Last step! Take two more of your 1/8" rings and connect together the two ends of your byzantine strands that are not attached to the beads. Both rings will run through the two rings on the end of each strand. When you do this, try and make sure that the weave lays straight and is not twisted. It looks better that way. Next, lay the piece out flat and figure out which side of the rings you just added is on the far side from the beads when the weave is not twisted. Add a 1/8" ring on that side. Now, add 1 more ring to that ring, and a 3rd ring to the new ring, creating a short 1 to 1 chain. Finally, take your last 1/8" ring and use it to attach the 1 to 1 chain to your bar (from the toggle clasp), and you're done! Just place the bar into one of the upper button-holes of your shirt as shown here, button it, and place your tie through the loop of chain and you're all set.