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Beading Creativity, Bead Crafting, and Jewelry Making
Beading and jewelry making is a popular craft for hobbyists and professionals alike. Within Creativity Portal's collection of beading resources you'll find a growing cache of informative jewelry-related articles and Web resources that explain the jewelry making design process, and those that share online design tools, free patterns, jewelry making tips, techniques, and instructional how-to tutorials for your own creative bead and jewelry projects.
Beading & Jewelry Making Websources
Beading Design Jewelry
Home based jewelry business and design Guide. Hundreds of ideas and tips to inspire you to design and create unique bead jewelry designs that will give you an edge in the market place. A great resource for inspiration and innovation in marketing and designing handmade bead jewelry. Includes information on jewelry making, jewelry marketing, beading, beaded jewelry, handcrafted jewelry, and selling jewelry. Also see: Gloria-Jean Browne's Jewelry Business Articles on Creativity Portal.
The Original Bead Fairies
The Bead Fairies is truly a salute to the grass roots movement. Perhaps because beads have always been synonymous with the free spirit and has also been the most primitive form of craft throughout history or because bead working as a craft has brought together women throughout the ages much as quilting.
Bead Fairies has existed on the Internet for many years, beginning with its creator Artemis Oakgrove, Queen Fairy and then passed down until it has reached the hands of Debra Santaniello. The site provides free loom patterns, a complete bead knitted amulet bag, a foreign bead dictionary, and a mighty list of links to bead sources on the Web.
Bead Stringing Projects by Patrice
Detailed instructions for stringing beautiful necklaces and bracelets using glass beads, semi-precious gemstones and freshwater pearls. Learn design techniques, how to choose thread, and how to attach a clasp. Or, work with wire and chain to create a jeweled necklace and a charm bracelet. Use the techniques explained at this site to create your own masterpiece, or copy one of the many projects Patrice has included.
How-to Instruction at Fire Mountain Gems & Beads
A huge library of how-to instruction, patterns, beading and jewelry Q-n-A, tips and techniques for new and seasoned beading enthusiasts. Features a Virtual BeadBoard(SM) beading project designer, a Web-based beading project tool that allows you to design your works of jewelry and beading art, save your designs, and order the components you need.
Artbeads.com Learning Center
A learning resource for the jewelry making enthusiast interested in free crafting projects and patterns using beads, charms, wire, chain, ribbon and other jewelry supplies and craft materials.
Auntie's Beads
Visit the Learning Center for free beading projects, jewelry making ideas, how-to videos, birth stone color chart, bead glossary, and a beading community.
Beadage Jewelry Instructions
Learn how to make handcrafted jewelry with free beading instructions, information, and projects. Features hemp, wirework, tigertail, and gemstone information.
BeadieFriends.com
Dedicated to providing beading enthusiasts with creative projects, patterns, and instructions. Features loom and peyote bead patterns, pattern library, and photo gallery.
Aunt Molly's Bead Street
Features many free patterns including an eagle, mermaid, yin yang, birds in nest quilt block, flaming heart, rain cloud, frog, and assorted patterns.
Bead Crochet
Tips and techniques for bead stringing, crochet, stitchery, and loom weaving. You can even learn bead crochet through free animated online lessons!
Beaded Images
Specializing in Delica Beads and Books by Barbara Elbe. Features helpful beading, stitching hints, and reference charts. Includes free patterns for a lighthouse, a rose barrette, angel, kitten, and clown.
Beadwork at About.com
Beaded jewelry making ideas, discussion board, free bead patterns, tips, tricks, terms, and tutorials.
Beading Times
Monthly online magazine (e-Zine) dedicated to beading. Visit this site for beading and marketing tips, bead projects and beading history, design tips, Q & A columns, and featured bead makers.
Janet's Beadwork Patterns
Free patterns including: goose earrings, lava lamp, jellyfish neckpiece, umbrella earrings, deco loom work alphabet, poinsettia amulet purse, sea turtle earrings, lizard earrings, and nautilus earrings.
Jewelry Making at About.com
Guided community resource for jewelry making. Features a beginner's corner, tip of the week, wire projects, glass jewelry and bead projects, metal projects, macramé, and project galleries.
Lapidary Journal
Features a step-by-step project index on lapidary, beads, and jewelry-making. Includes articles and designers, shows and events, and other resources.
Personal Beading & Jewelry Making Sites
Kim Rostberg's Amulet Bag Patterns
Graph pattern templates you can download and use. Includes several amulet bag patterns and full-size photo gallery with project instructions.
How to Design a Bead Chain
Learn what tools and materials you'll need to make a basic chain of beads, and read an interesting article about bead collecting.
Beadnik's
Features free Bead Plan patterns: brick stitch rearing horse, dancing horse, and mountain lion.
Evelyn's Beadie Page
Over 100 patterns and project instructions for beaded projects. Includes sun catcher patterns, beaded friendship pin patterns, and angel paper clips.
Kyal's Free Bead Patterns
Features free peyote patterns for a flag, Celtic wolf, drama masks, unicorns, butterflies, serpent dragon, sleepy kitty, dragonfly, sunflower, llamas, and fox pup.
Native Tech
Native American Technology and art relating to beading and weaving. Includes the use and techniques of glass beading, woven wampum beadwork, Seminole beads, and pendant types.
Pam's Place Bead Buddies
Tutorials with photos for making many bead buddies. Includes instructions for a bee, butterfly, dragonfly, gecko, lobster, pig, seahorse, whale, and fish.
