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
• Bead Directory of stores
• Local Craft Groups
• Bead Education
• Bead Magazines

Other Bead Groups

• 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
• Bead Museum - Glendale Arizona
  www.beadmuseumaz.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 Bead Stores

• Bead Stores in Ontario
  www.guidetobeadwork.com/localstores/canada/ON.str.html

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

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