Beadwork and Jewelry Making Department
Needlepointers.com's Beadwork & Jewelry department, will teach you the basics as well as advanced techniques and provides tutorials, free projects & tips.
New Tutorials and Pages
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Learn to make unique handcrafted jewelry bracelets made of beads, shells, twine, leather, metal and many other materials.
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This video shows the new Diamond Art Kits that are sold by Leisure Arts and other manufacturers. We give our thoughts on these kits and tips for doing the kits
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How to make a gorgeous Christmas ornament with bead garland and plastic ornament. A great holiday craft ideas for kids.
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Learn how to make DIY earrings, including drop, DIY hoop earrings, dangles, studs, using beads, macrame, polymer clay earrings DIY, ribbons, feathers, lace, and more!
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Learn how to make free standing lace earrings with an embroidery machine and thread. This quick and easy project is perfect to learn free standing lace designs.
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Paracord bracelets are a fun knotting project and decorative. Learn how to make a paracord bracelet with beads with our tutorial.
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Learn how to make a wood bead garland with an interesting twist using thread spools, wood beads and fabric strips.
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Learn how to create a cute wooden bead snowman ornament out of white beads and ribbon to give as a gift or to hang on your Christmas tree.
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This candy cane ornament is made from lace and beads. It's replicated from a vintage 1980's candy cane ornament I have in my collection.
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FREE Printable graph paper is useful for creating bead project patterns. Paper for cylinder beads, herringbone stitch, loom, seed bead, right angle weave.
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New Stuff
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Learn the African Helix stitch in 4 steps.
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Interweave
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Bead calculators will easily convert your metric or U.S. standard measurements FROM or TO either measurement system.
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Space Trader
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Know about clasps.
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Fire Mountain Gems
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How to make the daisy chain stitch.
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Fire Mountain Gems
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With just a few hand tools, findings, and beads, you can easily make these beaded earrings.
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Craftbits.com
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These charts and illustrations offer at-a-glance information from accurately identifying the number of beads available on each strand to how many beads it will take to create necklaces of varying lengths.
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Fire Mountain Gems
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How to make a simple loop in jewelry making.
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Fire Mountain Gems
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Kitco
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Handy chart and tips on finding the right size ring.
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Bling Jewelry
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See what a range of necklace sizes look like, get standards for bracelets and anklets, and find out how many beads you’ll need to achieve them with these charts and information blocks.
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Fire Mountain Gems