Bead Stringing Resources

Bead tips can hide crimp beads and crimp covers in jewelry designs strung on Accu-Flex® and other beading wires. In this short tutorial, jewelry-making expert Tammy Honaman demonstrates how to get this professional finish—or read the full step-by-step instructions below the video.

Patti shares five common jewelry making mistakes including crimping incorrectly, not keeping enough wiggle room at the ends of stringing projects and more. Learn how to avoid these issues when making jewelry.

Watch and learn how to use the sophisticated and simple intermittent stringing technique that showcases your beads by incorporating your beading wire into the design.

Durable and flexible Accu-Flex® professional-quality beading wire has plenty of benefits. Learn about them in this jewelry-making product show-and-tell with Rose.

Make your designing life easier with bead boards. Learn the bead board types and how these tools are advantageous to the beginner as well as the high-producing professional.

Sometimes it's not easy to know how to end a necklace, especially when there are so many ways that you can start it. Well take a breath of relief, here are a dozen ways to help you.

Learn to select the perfect beading wire to satisfy your needs. Key factors to consider are flexibility, resistance to kinking, strength and color.

Which thread is suited to seed beading? What's best for pearls? Learn about jewelry-making thread from Beadalon® WildFire™ to TOHO BEADS® One-G™ and more.

Bead stringing is the backbone of many designs; the rest can be done with a few jewelry-making fundamentals. Learn the fundamentals you need to create your own jewelry lines.

Use this handy chart to determine the number of beads per strand according to bead size and strand length, which can vary from batch to batch.