Beading Techniques, Tools, and How-To Articles

Check these pages for instructions, illustrations, related articles/magazines/books, and occasional videos on how to create jewelry, whether you favor bead stitching, stringing, or wireworking.  You'll also find links to selected articles on selling your work, organizing your bead stash, teaching, shopping, and other parts of the beading life.  Many more techniques, project ideas, and tips are discussed in the blogs section of the website.

African Helix

• Learn African Helix in 4 Steps

Bead Embroidery

Bead Making

• Creating Porcelain Beads:  An Insider's View
• Getting Started Making Glass Beads
• Make Beautiful Polymer Clay Beads
• Makeover:  Turn Lampworked Mistakes into Beautiful Beads
• Tips for Making Fabric Beads

Brick Stitch

Business

• Advice on Naming Your Jewelry Business
• How to Name Your Jewelry Projects
• How to Sell at Craft Shows During Tough Times
• 12 Reader Tips for Selling Your Jewelry
• Saving Money on Production
• 5 Tips for Launching Your Personal Website
• Tips for Selling Your Work in Shops and Galleries
• 7 Ways to Turn a Jewelry Shopper into a Buyer

Coils

Combining Bead Stitches

• Tips for Building Bead Structures

Cones

Contests

• 6 Tips from a Contest Judge

Crimping

• Crimp Covers
• Crimp End / Ribbon End
• French Wire
• Wireguard

Crochet (Bead Crochet)

Daisy Chain

Design

• 11 Ways to Wear a Rope Necklace
• How to Create the Perfect Gift Earrings

Eye Pins

Findings

• 5 Essential Findings for Your Stash
  

Fringe

General (collected tips on all types of techniques)

• 50 Great Tips from the Beadwork Editors
• Tips from Bead Instructors

Graph Paper

• Brick Stitch and Peyote Stitch Graph Paper
• Loomwork and Square Stitch Graph Paper

Head Pins

Herringbone Stitch

• Flat Herringbone Stitch
• Tubular Herringbone Stitch

Jump Rings

Knitting with wire or beads

Knotting

• Half-Hitch Knot
• Knot Cups
• Lark's Head Knot
• Overhand Knot
• Pearl Knotting
• Slide Knot
• Square Knot
• Surgeon's Knot

Ladder Stitch

Lampwork see beadmaking

Loomwork

Mixed Media

• 6 Top Tips for Making Mixed Media Jewelry

Netting

• Circular Netting
• Single-Thread Netting

Organization

• Organize Your Bead Studio

Oxidizing

Pass Back Through (PBT)

Pass Through (PT)

Peyote Stitch

• Circular Peyote Stitch
  
• Flat Peyote Stitch
  • Even-Count Peyote Stitch
  • Odd-Count Peyote Stitch
  • One-Drop Peyote Stitch
  • Two-Drop Peyote Stitch
• Spiral Peyote
• Tubular peyote stitch

Photography

• 3 Steps to Better Beadwork Photos
• Jazzing Up Your Beadwork Photos
• Photograph Your Jewelry with a Do-It-Yourself Light Box

Polymer Clay see beadmaking

Porcelain see beadmaking

Publication

• Get Published: Tips from the Editor of Stringing Magazine
• Good News!  5 Reader Galleries That Want Your Work
• How to Sell Your Projects to Creative Jewelry

Resin

• How to Create a Quick Cab
• 5 Tips for Using Dimensional Adhesive Glaze

Right-Angle Weave

• Single-Needle Right-Angle Weave
• Double-Needle Right-Angle Weave

"S" Clasp

Shopping

• 5 Shopping Tips for the Tucson Bead Shows

Simple Loops

Spiral Rope

Spirals (Wire)

Square Stitch

• Circular Square Stitch
• Square Stitch

St. Petersburg Chain

Stringing

Teaching

• Are You Ready to Teach Beading?

Tension Bead

Thread

Tools

• 10 Must-Have Beading Tools
• 7 Best Tools for Working with Wire
• Getting Started with Metal Jewelry:  Your First Tool
• Hammering Wire
  

Torch

• Playing with Fire:  Chooing a Butane Mini Torch

Triangle Weave

Wire Bail

Wireworking

Wrapped loops

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