Here you'll find links to websites we've found useful and inspirational, a list of blogs can be found at Kirsi's blog Peikonpesä.
Tutorials and galleries:
beadwork.about.com - introduction to basic techniques and free patterns with tutorials
Robyn's bead page - comprehensive free tutorials and a large gallery
www.rubysbeadwork.com - comprehensive free tutorials and a vast gallery, links - Ruby has also written her own book on beading
www.bead-patterns.com - patterns, tutorials and templates for free and for sale
Sandra D. Halpenny - tutorials and patterns for free and for sale, patterns can be bought one at a time or as books
Alexis' beads/perlen - free tutorials and a gallery, tutorials are in english, german and french! also lots of links to other galleries
Theresa's Beadwork & Chainmaille Tutorials - free tutorials and a gallery
Maria's virtual home - free tutorials and a gallery (there's a lot of traffic to this site, try again later, if you can't get in)
Eagle Spirit - beaded & cross crafted jewellery, free beading tutorials and patterns, gallery and a bead shop (BeadyBuys.com)
Varvara - patterns for free and for sale - books written by Varvara and ready made jewellery for sale
Koralky - Czech Beadwork - a Czech site with lots of free patterns
Holle's beadwork - gallery of colourful and strong beaded jewellery
Beadage.net - tips for a beginner, a gallery with pieces from different designers
Vera-Aleksa Sula - instructions and tutorials for different stitches and free patterns, mostly in finnish (the turorials are well illustrated)
Twinbead
- an intricate gallery presenting jewellery made with both their own
patterns and others (several pieces with Sandra D. Halpenny's and
Varvara's patterns) - pages in finnish, but easy to navigate (pick a
category from the left panel)
www.derideri.jp/club - a japanese page with cute free projects - instructions are in japanese, but they come with pictures :)
Carmie - Carmies Picasa-album is filled with true inspiration! Moon jewellery and beads is her webstore, where she offers the same lucite beads and charms she uses herself.
The Sage's Encyclopedia - "An All-In-One Resource for Bead-lovers", instructions for basic techniques for both seed beaders and for stringing
Auntie's Beads - webstores free patterns and video tutorials :)
3Dbeading.com - free patterns for beaded animals and hearts
FusionBeads.com - free technique and pattern tutorials for many types of media
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Links to free graph paper (updated May 4th 2008)
