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Bead related
information
Bead & Button - THE bead
magazine. We had a few beads on the "Your Work" page of issue #2.
Beading times - Online Beading
Magazine: Monthly Bead Project, Beading Tip, Marketing Tip, Featured bead
maker.
The Bead Bugle - The Bead NFObase
online magazine.
Thebeadsite - Serious study of
all beads with the emphasis on people. The worlds biggest bead bookstore.
Center for bead research.
Zizzyzaza - Lisa Hobson is a bead
vendor, and our favorite bead show promoter.
Jewelry Making - Part of the About.Com network, a wealth of
information and links to everything Jewelry.
Sources of glass and tools
Frantz Art Glass & Supply -
Pioneers of the bead biz, we buy our glass here.
Arrow Springs
- The annealing oven we use comes from them. A very informative site for
beadmaking.
Aura Lens - Source for Didymium
glasses, and advanced protection eyewear.
Don McKinney - Glass
Artist/Teacher/Designer and Manufacturer of Tools and Equipment
Glasscraft - A great supplier
for all your lampworking needs. They have some of the hard to find items.
Sundance - West coast's
art glass center.
C&R Loo - For glassblowers
and torchworkers.
Bullseye Online - Bullseye
glass co. Manufacture of stained glass, and compatible glass rod.
Coatings by Sandberg -
Manufacturer of Dichroic Glass.
Whale Apparatus - Leans toward
scientific glasswork, but another great source and now online.
Glass related
Whitehouse-Books
- If you are looking
for a book that is glass related, you will find it here.
Glass Line News - A great newsletter
for Lampworkers full of hard to find how to information.
Glass Line's Bulletin Board
System - Hot glass discussion.
Pilchuck Glass
School - The largest and most comprehensive center for artists who
create with glass.
The Corning Museum of Glass - An
educational resource.
Blocksite - If you have an
interest in marbles, start here.
The Glass Museum - Lots of
articles and information related to glass in general, and extensive links.
The Glass Encyclopedia -
A fully comprehensive glass encyclopedia on-line.
Mondo Fiamma - A global
overview of flameworked glass art. Wow!
Glass Art Photo Gallery - Glass
Artist.Org is a wonderful online gallery of art glass work.
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Other Artists
Sharon Bateman - An
accomplished freelance writer and beadwork designer, Sharon Bateman
encourages and inspires beginning and experienced beaders with this
expansive site featuring her work.
Byebead - Karen Bye has a
nice, easily navigated site, with beautiful beads, heart-warming stories,
and a new Contest each and every month.
Caitlin Hyde Designs -
Modern, contemporary, one of a kind, Caitlin's beads are way cool.
Missoula Artists
Cooperative - Many of our local art friends can be found here.
Gossamer Glass Studio - Brian
Kerkvliet has classes and outrageous glass work.
Chihuly - If you don't know Dale
Chihuly, and you have any interest in glass... You need to see.
Bead and Jewelry
Suppliers
Fire Mountain Gems
- America's favorite beading and jewelry making supplies.
Largest selection of beads and components at wholesale prices.
Rings & Things
- Rings & Things is a wholesale mail order supplier of beads,
jewelry findings, charms, cord, polymer clay, Austrian rainbow crystal
(beads and hangings), jewelry display items, and other jewelry components.
Rio Grande - Rio Grande is where
you will find everything you need for creating, manufacturing and displaying
fine jewelry.
Shipwreck Beads - The worlds
largest selection of beads.
Angel's Arrowhead Glass Bead
Jewelry - Features vintage seed beads, glass beads, an artists
collection of finished bead jewelry, antique silver clasps, sterling silver,
and mermaid tiles & jewelry.
Gail's Beads -
Offers a large variety of Czech beads, loose, strands, seed beads, and
lampwork beads.
Full Moon Design - Visit the
animated site featuring intricate wire wrapped jewelry, and The Full Moon
Wire Wrap Fixture, the jewelry tool that makes bead and wire chain a snap.
EDiamands - Shopping for a
diamond? Look here before you buy, and get an education with your
purchase.
Auntie's Beads They sell
beads and beading supplies
and have tons of free videos and projects and consider themselves to be one
of the best bead resources on the web.
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