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Bead Stringing Bead Crochet Bead Knitting with 100% Pearl Cotton Thread
Published: 01-27-2013 04:19pm
Whether it's bead stringing, bead crochet, bead knitting or bead weaving I'm always amazed at how the tried and true continues to sell year-in-year-out.Made in Germany Anchor Pearl Cotton is a bead stringing material which really impresses me how many people, despite the amazing variety of bead thread that are currently available, just how this product has such a loyal customer base year after year.Available in nineteen colors, each with it's own color number - which is extremely useful in case you can't get more from your original supplier, the color number ensures that you get the same dye match from another supplier to complete your beading p... » Read More
Beading Books, Bugle Beads and Buttons
Published: 12-03-2011 06:28pm
Beading and jewelry design books, Czech glass bugle beads and buttons are a few of the smallest category listings currently in my Artfire bead studio; but not for lack of what's available. If you've every wondered how or why there are so many bead suppliers online and how can they possibly be successful to any degree the answers lies in what is available in what I call the bead world which is one reason I decided to enter into this business.I needed a business venture that I wouldn't easily get bored with and once I saw the vast inventories of several New York City bead suppliers parked right next to each other with little or no overlap in invent... » Read More
The Beauty of Bead Mixes: Seed Beads, Czech Glass and Delica Bead Mix
Published: 11-28-2011 06:21pm
The beauty of working with bead mixes is really the ease of use and they really do seem to save time in bead art jewelry designing.The bead mix section of my bead studio is quite extensive; and you will find coordinating bead mix colors like: Blue TonesCaribbean BlueFields of FrancGeorgia Earth TonesHeatherHeavy MetalHoney Butter aka MarigoldJewel TonesLilacsRainbowShades of GrayVintage MerlotWheatberryAlso the bead types available in the above colors are; Czech glass fire polished faceted round beads, 7mm drop flower beads, smooth round pressed Druk beads, Miyuki Japanese Delica seed beads, Miyuki Japanese triangle beads size... » Read More
Czech Glass Roller Pony Crow Beads
Published: 11-28-2011 08:59am
Why so many names for these beads named Czech Glass Roller aka Crow beads.And then there are Tri-Cut or V-Cut Roller beads, silverlined, and metallic; well, first let me explain about the bead names.Basically the 6mm sized Czech Glass Roller beads is the smallest in this bead type that you can get, yet it has about the same hole size as the 9mm Crow bead. The names Roller and Pony are interchangeable when it comes to the 6mm size of this Czech Glass bead. 9mm size is known as a Crow bead and many people also use this name interchangeably with Pony & Roller bead names, thus the confusion.From my experience it seems that the reason why people int... » Read More
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