Beading By Dave
Dave takes the mystery out of beading around a feather.

BeadLine Studios
Judith Bertoglio-Giffin gives instructions for crocheting beaded ropes and bracelets along with pattern variations.

Beadwrangler's Bead & Fiber Junction
Over 1,000 pages of bead and fiber information - no advertising - no banners. Just a relaxing place for beaders with free workshops, book and magazine reviews, national events coverage, insider reports, beadwork samplers, focus pages for beading, weaving.crochet and lots of other subjects with 1,000's of links, special features, beadwrangler stories and guest articles. Lots of fun!

Bob's Beading Tutorial Pages
A great source for beading techniques in stringing beads, knotting, tools, attaching clasps and more.

Checker Beads
A collection of free peyote patterns and instructions for all types of techniques. Special Wizard of Oz 3-D characters patterns!

Coby's Beaded Flowers
A new and small site that looks promising in offering realistic patterns and instruction on making beaded flowers. Hyacinth and roses are now available with the promise of more to come!

Suzanne Cooper's Beads & Stained Glass
Page of famed bead artist and author of "Then and Again". Ms. Cooper provides an informative section called "Jump Start Classroom" to her site. New and experienced beaders will benefit greatly from this section. She provides thirteen lessons in a variety of stiches.

Copper Leaf Designs
Excellent tutorials on wire closures, wire leaf jig and bead and wire chain.

Eagle Spirit
Tutorials (Get this: In English, German, French and Spanish) for Chevron Chains, Daisy Chains, and Victorian Lace with variations. Also free loom patterns. Over all a nice site.

Emily Hackbarth's Archived Materials...about.com
Beloved Emily Hackbarth formerly the guide for about.com Beadwork. Fortunately for those of you who never experienced the wit and great artistry of Emily, about.com has archived her material! Here you will find a treasure trove or patterns, techniques and various other subjects concerning beadwork. If you never visit another site concerning beadwork, make sure you stop here first and last!

Hillsinger
One of my most favorite sites; a jewel to the eye and very informative. Hillsinger will tell you how to build a loom, make flat round peyote and a spiral rope chain. Anne must have the worst provider in these United States. The site is down more than it is up. I choose not to delete this link, until I hear it's truly gone, because like the little girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead...."When she was good she was very very good, but when she was bad she was horrid." Definitely worth the wait.

Janie's Embellished Beads - A Tutorial
A beautiful site of techniques for bead embellishments, beaded balls, flower embellishments and all the how to's to go with it.

Marcie's Manor
A delightful collection of loom, peyote and brick patterns by Marcie Fitzwater. Also free tutorials on Ndebele, Diamond Brick Stitch and Cuff Bracelets.
More Loom Patterns by Marcie

Nativetech
Site dedicated to Eastern Woodland Indians, historical and contempory background and instruction on beadwork as well as procupine quill work and other related crafts.

No Easy Beads
Easy to follow tutorials on The Ndebele Chain, Chevron Chain, Christmas Ornament, Bead pendants using headpins and triangle beads and RAW with a kiss bracelet. Also patterns. Nice site overall

Wigjig Jewelry Tool
174 Pages of Free Wire Designs, "How To" Instructions, Techniques and Tips. An ultimate guide for the beginning wire worker an experienced alike. Available for download via standard HTML or Acrobat.

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