More Bead Links

Links of interest to our members. If you have additions to this page please send them to WebTeam

• Other Bead Groups
• About Beads
• About your Bead Business
• Bead Shows
• Bead History
• Directory of Stores
• Local Craft Groups
• Bead Education
• Bead Magazines

Other Bead Groups

• West Toronto Beading Guild
  sites.google.com/site/wtbeadingguild
• Gem and Mineral Club of Scarborough
  www.scarbgemclub.ca
• York Region Beaders Guild (based in north Toronto)
  www.yorkregionbeadersguild.blogspot.com
• Niagara Bead Society (St. Catharines, Ont.)
  www.niagarabeadsociety.ca
• Grand River Bead Society (Guelph, Ont.)
  www.grandriverbeadsociety.com
• Ottawa Bead Society
  www.ottawabeadsociety.org
• Black Crafters Guild (based in Peterborough)
  craftsguild.net
• Victoria Beading Group (Victoria, B.C.)
  www.victoriabeading.ca
• Great Lakes Beadworkers Guild (Royal Oak, Michigan)
  www.greatlakesbeadworkersguild.org
• Bead Society of Greater Washington (D.C.) and Bead Museum
  www.bsgw.org
• Chicago Bead Society
  www.bsgc.org
• Los Angeles Bead Society
  www.beadsocietyla.org
• Bead Society of Great Britain
  www.beadsociety.org.uk
• Bead Guild Directory for Canada and U.S.
  www.fibreartsonline.com/fac/bead

About Beads

• International Society of Glass Beadmakers
  www.isgb.org
• Scientific glassworking from East Carolina University
  www.ecu.edu/glassblowing/gb.htm
• Glass beadmaking tutorials
  www.cauldroncreations.com/tutorialindex.html
• Toho beadmaking
  www.tohobeads.net

About your Bead Business

• Information on starting and running your own jewellery business! Great Tips!
  www.home-jewelry-business-success-tips.com
• Tips for taking photos of your Jewellery
  www.torontobeadsociety.org

Bead Shows

• Toronto Bead Society - Bead shows in May and November
• Canadian Bead Oasis - Shows in Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax and Vancouver
• Toronto Jewellery, Gem & Mineral Shows - Shows in April, July and October
• Ottawa Glass Bead and Jewellery Show - November
• Rockhound Gemboree - August show in Bancroft, Ontario
• Creativ Festival - Fall show with crafts including beads
• Fraser Valley Bead Show - Vancouver area in October

Bead History

• The World on a String - DVD series produced by veteran film maker Diana Friedberg, supported by the Bead Society of Los Angeles.
  www.worldonastringmovie.com
• Bead Database - Global Interactive Bead Database - Educational resource to identify beads
  www.bead-database.org
• Textile Museum - Toronto
  www.textilemuseum.ca
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, over 13,500 high resolution images of costumes and textiles
  collectionsonline.lacma.org
• Corning Museum of Glass, world's largest glass museum located in New York State, Finger Lakes area
  www.cmog.org

Directory of Stores

• Bead Stores in Ontario
  www.guidetobeadwork.com/localstores/canada/ON.str.html
• The Needlework Pages - whether you quilt, knit, cross stitch, sew, embroider, rug hook, bead, spin, or weave, this is where you'll find the shops, events, and supplies you're looking for
  www.theneedleworkpages.com

Local Craft Groups

• Toronto Craft Alert - local craft events, discussion, and artists
  www.torontocraftalert.ca
• Gem & Mineral Club of Scarborough
  www.scarbgemclub.ca
• Downtown Knit Collective
  www.downtownknitcollective.ca
• Southern Ontario Polymer Clay Guild
  sopcg.blogspot.ca

Bead Education

• Haliburton School of the Arts
  www.flemingc.on.ca
• George Brown - Jewellery Studies
  www.georgebrown.ca/jewellery

Bead Magazines

Canadian Publications

• CanadianBeading.ca
• Metal Clay Artists
• Needle Pulling Thread

U.S. Publications

• Bead and Button
• Bead Style
• Art Jewelry
• Beadwork
• Step by Step Beads
• Step by Step Wire
• Stringing
• Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist