Links of Interest

Member websites

• Diane Faulk - The Bead Parlor
• Mary Winters-Meyer - The Beading Banshee
• Bo Breda - www.bobreda.biz

Societies and Research-related Sites

• The Center for Bead Research: www.TheBeadSite.com (Serious study of all beads with the emphasis on people. The World's Biggest Bead Bookstore and Busiest Bead Web Site.)
• Bead Society of Greater Chicago: www.bsgc.org

Book/ Magazine and Bead Show Sites:

• Bead & Button Magazine wbesite: www.beadandbutton.com
• Embellishments annual bead and quilt show: www.embellishment-show.com
• Beadwork magazine and other books, Interweave Press: www.interweave.com
• The Bead Bugle, The Bead NFObase Magazine: www.nfobase.com

Gallery Sites

• 1998 Bead Dreams, Future Visions: www.goldstein.che.umn.edu/past/bead.htm
• Beadwork III: The Beaded Cloth: www.interweave.com/bead/cloth/beadedcloth.htm
• Gorgeous photos of Saraguro necklaces: www.saraguro.org/beadwork.htm

Online Tutorials and Patterns

• Beautiful free cross stitch designs (can be worked on a loom or in square stitch): www.solaria.online.bg/gobelins
• Gorgeous "picture" amulet bag patterns: www.amuseink.com
• NanC Meinhardt: www.nancmeinhardt.com
• Bead Patterns, both free and for sale: www.bead-patterns.com
• Rings & Things Project page: http://www.rings-things.com/PROJ1.HTM
• Online instructions for two-needle right-angle weave: www.rightangleweave.com
• A variation on the classic Spiral Rope technique: www.beadweaverdreams.homestead.com/doublespiral.html
• Beadwork at About.com: beadwork.about.com
• The Beading Banshee, Society member site: www.beadingbanshee.com
• i-bead.com: i-bead.com
• The Beadwrangler, Lydia Borin's website. Lots of reviews and free patterns: www.beadwrangler.com