Janet's Beadwork Links

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Artists

Bead on the Beach · Cool stuff, especially the 3D animals.
The Beader's Corner · A gallery and some colorful patterns in a variety of stitches.
Aunt Molly's Bead Street · A classroom, lots of patterns, links, and a gallery.
The Beading Banshee · A very cool site from the inventor of linked chain stitch, Mary J. Winters-Meyer.
Home of Beadnik · A neat site featuring a gallery, patterns, and tutorials for pentacle earrings and tubular right-angle weave.
Sylvia Becker's Beadwork Gallery · Wonderful beaded critters. Her work is also shown in The New Beadwork.
Beaded Images · Barbara Elbe sells her books and kits here. She also offers some free patterns and helpful hints.
Hillsinger Fine Hand Beadwork · Instructions for flat round peyote and a spiral rope. A breathtaking gallery.
Janie's Embellished Beads · Janie presents a tutorial for her beads, worked in gourd stitch with embellishments.
Kyal's Patterns Page · Very cool gourd stitch patterns, mostly animals and flowers.
Minoa · Some truly great beadwork—check out the split loom neckpieces in the gallery. Margie Deeb has a wonderful sense of line and color.
Kim Rostberg · A great gallery and several amulet purse patterns.
Sassafrass Beadworks · A gallery and some interesting gourd stitch patterns, including a flock of flamingos and a map of the world. Also a couple of right-angle weave patterns.

Beadless in Seattle

Northwest Bead Society · Contact and meeting information for this Seattle beadwork group.
Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild · Meeting and membership information for this Seattle-area needlework society.
The Bead Fairies' Washington Bead Shops · A reliable listing of bead shops in the state of Washington.
Alexander's Bead Bazaar · A bead shop in the Roosevelt neighborhood with a great selection of Czech seed beads.

Magazines

Bead and Button · The premier beadwork magazine. This is the one I subscribe to.
Interweave Beadwork · Another very good beadwork magazine. This is the next one I am going to subscribe to.
Jewelry Crafts · A general jewelry magazine, mostly beads and polymer clay. They offer free projects online monthly.

Reference

BeadNet · The Yahoo! of beadwork. Can't live without it.
Bead Fairies · A large compendium of useful reference material.
Beadwork at About.com · Bi-weekly features (usually projects) and a great link collection, now with a new host.
Absolute Authority on Beadwork · This site has a searchable collection of links, sorted by type and rated.