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crimping

String a crimp tube and pass through the connection finding. Pass back through the tube leaving a short tail. Use the back notch of crimping pliers to pinch the tube into a U, leaving a wire on each side of the bend. Rotate the tube 90° and use the front notch to form the pinched tube into a clean cylinder.

  • Crimp tubes are seamless metal tubes used to secure the end of a beading wire.
  • Twisted crimp tubes (pictured) are crimp tubes that have been "twisted," creating ridges on the inside of the tube that grip beading wire.
  • Crimp beads are serrated metal beads.  Twisted crimp tubes and crimp beads can be secured by squeezing them flat with chain- or flat-nose pliers.

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 See also:  crimp covers, crimp end/ribbon end, French wire, wireguard

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  • Beading Daily Earring Swap
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  • Make Your Own Summer Memories Charm Bracelet
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  • 5 Ideas for Kid-Friendly Beading Projects
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  • Create Chain with Wire, Beads, or Yarn: 10 Ideas
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  • Jewelry Design Ideas for Briolettes, Plus Free Project
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  • Free Project: Modern Wire and Crystal Bracelet
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  • New Free Earrings eBook
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  • Denise Peck's Easy Peasy Wire Wraps
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  • Hurray for Herringbone: Free Project & Technique Tips
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  • Free Metalwork Earring Instructions
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  • Why Simple Designs Aren't Always Simple to Make
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  • Saving Money On Production with Cynthia Deis
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  • How to Use (and Mix) Metals in Jewelry Designs
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  • Beadwork Pattern Play Challenge
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  • Do You Torture Your Beads?
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  • Meet the Semiprecious Beads Design Contest Winners
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  • Miracles, Sea Urchins, and Other Unusual Beads
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  • Create These Easy Crystal and Seed Bead Earrings
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  • How to Stitch an Easy Spiral Rope
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  • Are You a Bead Snob?
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  • Create an Artsy Pinwheel Necklace
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  • Free Loomworked Bracelet Project Instructions
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  • Jean's Top 4 Bead Trends for 2009
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  • Bargain Basement Beauty: Create This Necklace Under $25
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  • Wireguard
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  • New: Enter the Semiprecious Beads Contest
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  • Design Challenge: Designing Jewelry with Semiprecious Beads
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  • Square Knot
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  • Lark's Head Knot
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  • Overhand Knot
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  • Beading Techniques, Tools, and How-To Articles
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  • How to Name Your Jewelry Projects
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  • Thread
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  • 5 Reasons to Love Glass Beads
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  • Michelle's First Trip to the Tucson Bead Shows
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  • Meet the New Beadwork Editor Plus Five Free Peyote Patterns
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  • Create Oxidized Wire Post Earrings
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  • Match Your Jewelry to Your Neckline
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  • Are You the Next Bead Star?
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  • 11 Ways to Wear a Rope Necklace
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  • Top 10 Free Beading Tips & Projects from 2008
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  • Create an Easy Elastic Beaded Bracelet
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  • Learn a New Jewelry Technique Next Year (or Just Get Organized!)
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  • How to Store Pearls, Plus Free Necklace Instructions
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  • Make Easy Patterned Metal Earrings
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  • Your Favorite Beading Gifts and a Simple Winter Bracelet
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  • Last-Minute Beading Gift-Making Ideas
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  • Good News: 5 Reader Galleries That Want Your Work!
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  • How to Wire Knit with a Knitting Spool
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  • Vintage Jewelry Inspiration: Design Sketches and Ideas
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  • Free Wire Spiral Earrings, Plus New Reader Gallery
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  • Fearlessly Creative: An Interview with Kristal Wick
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  • Tips for Making Your Own Fabric Beads, Plus Kristal Wick Interview
    A few years ago I tried to make beads from ribbons. Sounds pretty easy, right? Cut a piece of ribbon, roll it up, and glue it. What could possibly go wrong? (How much time do you have?) My beads came apart at the seams and they were easily squashed. I couldn't figure out how much ribbon should overlap
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  • Get Organized: Bead Storage Checklist
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  • Pick Your Prize Giveaway, Plus Power of Beading Contest Winners
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  • Behind the Scenes of Stringing Magazine
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  • How to Create a Wire Bail for a Marble
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  • Holiday Gifts: Give Magazines!
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  • How to Add an Exotic Touch to Your Jewelry
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  • Seed Bead and Wire Halloween Earrings
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  • 3 Asymmetrical Design Tips for Beginners
    There are a lot of beaders who just don’t go to asymmetry first when they’re designing, even though they might want to try. Their natural tendency is to always mirror the two sides in a piece, and they feel they can’t break out of the rut. For those of you who fall into that category, I’ve put together
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  • 6 Ways to Combine Beads with Paper
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  • 5 Tips for Designing with Color
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  • Top 3 Places to Find Beading Inspiration
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  • Make a Necklace with Leftover Chain
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  • Contests
    Contests, Galleries, Giveaways, and Challenges Try your hand at these bead-related contests, galleries, giveaways, and challenges sponsored by Interweave Press. Entries are listed in date order. While we strive to keep this page up-to-date, be sure to
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  • Learn to Decorate Metal Charms with Transfers
    Whether you prefer stringing beads, wire wrapping, or seed-beading, you, like me, love anything handmade. If, dare I say, you have non-crafty friends, they probably think you are crazy for staying up until 2 a.m. just to finish a project.
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  • 5 Essential Findings for Your Bead Stash
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  • 6 Ideas for Using Cord, Ribbon, and Other Stringing Materials
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  • Family Beading Fun: A Kid-Tested Project Idea
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  • Vote for Your Free Project from Custom Cool Jewelry
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  • Brick Stitch O-Ring Necklace and 12+ Free Projects!
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  • Macrame Bracelet with Focal Bead
    Macramé was one of my teenage passions. I used soft, cotton string from the hardware store, and my favorite macramé experiences were wall hangings. I learned all my knots from one book, and would simply start knotting, making it up as I went along. I was in it for the journey, not just the destination
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  • Reader Gallery: Beadweaving + Stringing Projects
    I love combining bits of beadweaving with small bits of stringing or wirework. Check out my Lazy-B Ranch (ladder stitch and stringing) or Love Birds Necklace (daisy chain and wirework) as examples.
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  • Jewelry Using Combined Techniques
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  • Beadaholic Confessions: Reader Poll Results
    I was delighted that almost 80% buy beads without knowing exactly how they'll use them. Me too! Now that my stash is getting out of control, I try to have at least a general idea--"those beads would make cute earrings"--but sometimes that's as specific as I get. I also found it fascinating
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  • 5 Ways to Stretch Your Beading Budget
    Beading and saving money are two topics near and dear to my heart. My Celestial Sparkle necklace was inspired when I could only afford a single strand of borosilicate beads. I wanted to showcase them in a necklace, but everyone who saw the tiny strand said I should just give up and make a bracelet. Luckily
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  • Artists Inspiring Other Artists: 3 Examples
    In my editor’s letter in the Summer issue of Stringing, I mention how a comment from Beth Garbo, owner of Mystic, Connecticut’s You’ve GOT to be Beading, struck a chord with me: "Our customers love Stringing magazine—it’s awesome to see them inspired by other artists." It made me realize that
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  • Power Crimping and Other Crimping Tips
    Ah, the time-eating joys of the Internet…I just Googled the word crimp and the #1 entry that came up was the “friendly rap” stylings of The Mighty Boosh, a surrealistic comedy troop that our BBC-viewing friends probably know well. Being from the States, I had no idea! Judging from the half hour I just
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  • Bead Spree Winners
    When I retire from Beading Daily, I want Ed McMahon's job. You know, the guy who drives around handing out those huge million dollar checks?
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  • 7 Steps to the Perfect Crimp
    When channel surfing the other day I came across a show featuring a home built by its owner. The guy had used recycled materials and industrial cast-offs to create a very modern, fresh space. One of the best features was the staircase, which employed thick steel cable and eye screws as balusters. The
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  • Teresa Sullivan's Freeform Peyote Figures
    I met Teresa at Bead Expo Portland where she was teaching two classes, including one titled "Monster Mash" which promised to "unleash the secrets of sculptural peyote stitch" by creating fun faces with seed beads. At the show, Teresa was wearing one of her striking pieces and I was
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  • 5-Minute Hammered Wire Earrings
    Each month, one of the magazine editors will share a free project with Beading Daily. Today's guest editor is Denise Peck, editor in chief of Step by Step Wire Jewelry magazine and senior editor of Jewelry Artist . An editor by trade and a lifelong
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  • New: Beading Daily Discussion Forums
    Inside My Inbox One of my favorite parts of this job is reading my email. I love your enthusiasm, your willingness to try new things, your ideas, your creativity. Here's a recent sample from my inbox: Amy wants to make jewelry with found objects.
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  • Win a Shopping Spree at Your Local Bead Shop
    To celebrate the start of summer (and because I really, really like giving things away!), Beading Daily is giving away 3 shopping sprees ($300, $200, $100) to use at local bead shops in the U.S. and Canada. Imagine what you could buy with that money:
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  • Right-Angle Weave (Double Needle)
    Using two needles, one on each end of the thread, string three beads on one of the needles and slide them to the center of the thread. String a fourth bead, passing one needle through from left to right and passing the other needle through from right
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  • Surgeon's Knot
    The surgeon’s knot is very secure and therefore good for finishing off most stringing materials. Tie an overhand knot, right over left, but instead of one twist over the left cord, make at least two. Tie another overhand knot, left over right, and
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  • A Quick Guide to Bead Speak (A Beginner's Glossary)
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  • Thread is Cheaper Than Frustration and 4 More Thread Tips
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  • Coiled Wire Necklace with Lampwork Pendant
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  • Jean Campbell's 10 Must-Have Beading Tools
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  • How to Win Beading Competions: 6 Tips from a Contest Judge
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  • Must Earrings Match?
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  • Glass Design Challenge Winners, Plus More Beading Contests
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  • Inspired by Attire: Using Clothing to Inspire Jewelry Designs
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  • Bead Star Design Contest
    I love American Idol . I love seeing the rags-to-riches, dream-come-true type of experience of the contestants. I love arguing the merits of personality, singing talent, and stage presence with my co-workers--and teasing them that Jason Castro sang "Michelle"
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  • 6-Strand Pearl and Crystal Wedding Bracelet
    If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? No wisdom here on that question, but I can tell you that if you whisper the word "wedding" in an empty room, everyone within 50 miles will hear you--and regale
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  • An Interview with Lisa Kan
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  • Designing Jewelry for People with Metal Allergies
    My son is a rocker. Long hair, tall and skinny, a bit on the pale side, and a beast with a guitar. He's only twelve, and as far as we know, he's steered clear of the, eh hem, unsavory things sometimes involved with rock and roll. But the issue
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  • Beaded Watch with Your Favorite Clasp
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  • Top Organization Tips from Readers
    Organization Tips Large and Small Sometimes a small organizational tip can make a huge difference. My headpins are stored in tiny plastic bags and as a result, they are bent every which way. When contest finalist Susan Jacob mentioned that she kept her
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  • Free Project: Caribbean Sunset Multistrand Necklace with Pendant
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  • Jewelry Ideas for Valentine's Day
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  • Meet the New Contributing Editor: Jean Campbell
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  • An Interview with Jean Yates
    Jean Yates's jewelry designs regularly appear in beading magazines, including Stringing, Beadwork, Simply Beads, and BeadStyle. She also recently published her first jewelry design book, Links. Jean lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband Jim and three of her five sons. Jean's
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  • Choose Your Free Beading Project
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  • Creating a Wire S-Clasp
    I really admire jewelry artists who create every bit of their designs down to a customized clasp, so I was excited when Sandra Lupo offered to share these steps for creating an S-clasp. Sandra has been making jewelry for 20 years in her New Jersey studio
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  • Simple Necklace with Polymer Heart Pendant
    The Problem with "Just Make Something" My friend Jeanne walked into a local bead shop for a beginning beading class. She was instructed to pick out some beads from the store and "make something" with help from the staff. To me, this
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  • Playing with Color: 3 Tips
    It's easy to get in a color rut in beading. Sometimes we don't even realize it! This past Christmas I wanted to make some pink earrings for someone who loves pink. I discovered I had no pink beads at all in my collection. Instead, I had probably
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  • Choosing the Right Bracelet Clasp
    Choosing the Right Bracelet Clasp Beading Daily reader Nicole asked a great question about bracelet clasps. Her "best clasp" question is one of those questions that seems on the surface to be quick and easy. While there are some basic facts
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  • Ideas for Floral Earrings
    Free Project: Caribbean Breeze by Sandi Wiseheart I know, I know. Most of you are probably glancing outside at all the snow and ice on the ground and wondering if I have my calendar wrong. Yes, it's still January and yes, I'm talking about floral
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  • New Contest: Share Your Organization Tips
    It's easy to be an organized beader--if you've only been to one bead shop in your entire life and your entire "stash" fits in the palm of your hand. Now that I'm a "professional" beader, I can't get by with a tiny plastic
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  • An Interview with Melanie Brooks Lukacs
    Melanie Brooks Lukacs is a clay bead artist who specializes in whimsical porcelain beads. A quick visit to her website, Earthenwood Studio, reveals bead categories like "fairy and critter beads," "wicked trinkets", and "moon and pixie beads." Her original jewelry designs
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  • Necklace Design Ideas
    Necklace Ideas from Stringing Magazine When I flip through a beading magazine, I'm not only looking for beautiful pieces of jewelry, but I'm also looking for ideas and inspiration. What unusual techniques or materials can I adapt for my own designs
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  • Silver Metal Clay Pendant
    Silver Metal Clay Pendant This beautiful Silver Sea Stone pendant by Linda Kaye Moses is an advanced Precious Metal Clay (PMC) project from Step by Step Beads magazine. It uses a real stone for its shape. A textured sheet of metal clay is draped on each
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  • Get Published! Tips from the Editor of Stringing Magazine
    Submitting Your Jewelry Designs to Magazines Have you ever dreamed of seeing your original jewelry design in a magazine? If you admitted that dream to Stringing editor Danielle Fox, she would say: "Don't be shy--show off your work!" Magazines
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  • Meet the Beading Daily Challenge Winners
    Beading Daily Challenge Winners Thirty-four brave beaders took the first Beading Daily challenge: It Takes Two. For this challenge, beaders had to choose two techniques and create an original pair of earrings. Wireworking was definitely the most popular
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  • Elegant Netted Bracelet
    Can I get you a bracelet with that moose? Does it matter where you sell your jewelry? Over the weekend, I had two very different experiences shopping for beaded items. On Saturday, I went to a craft show in another town. The show, held in a historic building
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  • Happy Thanksgiving from Beading Daily
    Happy Thanksgiving from Beading Daily ! Why am I thankful for the members of Beading Daily ? Great emails and blog comments, beautiful photos of your projects, helpful tips and suggestions . . . I couldn't do Beading Daily without you! Thank you for
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  • The Beaded Sculptures of Natasha St. Michael
    Meet Bead Artist Natasha St. Michael I first learned about Natasha St. Michael's three-dimensional beaded sculptures when looking through back issues of Fiberarts magazine. For those of you not familiar with Fiberarts , this internationally focused
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  • Kazuri Beads and Other Good Causes
    Kazuri Beads and Other Good Causes I fell in love with Kazuri beads at a local bead show. ("Kazuri" is the Swahili word for "small and beautiful.") I loved the bright colors of the ceramic beads and once I learned the story behind
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  • Are you up to The Challenge?
    The First Beading Daily Challenge I'm SO excited to announce the first challenge for Beading Daily members! I was supposed to wait until Friday to announce it, but frankly, I thought I might explode if I waited any longer! The theme: It Takes Two
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  • Make Your Own Pendant
    Fear of Large Butterflies or How to Make Your Own Pendant Only one element in the latest Beadwork challenge--a gorgeous 38 x 46mm brass filigree butterfly--felt large enough to use as a necklace pendant. But, honestly, it was so large it made me feel
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  • An Interview with Ralph McCaskey
    I met lampwork artist Ralph McCaskey at Bead Expo in Oakland last spring. He had a long table full of beads, but honestly, the only ones that I remember are the monsters! Each monster bead has its own personality, which makes purchasing one more like an adoption than a mere financial transaction. Ralph
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  • Shining Example Necklace
    Happy Labor Day! If you have the day off, I hope you're enjoying yourself! Traditionally, Labor Day has marked the end of summer and the beginning of fall in the U.S., even though summer officially does not end until September 22. I always find this
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  • A Wedding Story
    Many beaders I know got their start making wedding jewelry. When I heard how Rebecca Campbell created the Filigree Drops (from the book, Create Jewelry: Crystals ) for her sister's wedding, I knew I wanted to share her story with you. I hope you enjoy
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  • 10 Reasons to Bead Happy
    Ever have one of those weeks? You rip your skirt getting out of the car, your boss says something upsetting, the grocery store has absolutely no mint chip ice cream . . . And then something happens to put it all into perspective. In my case, I found a
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  • Attention Seed Beaders!
    Hello seed beaders! I bet you thought I forgot all about you, didn't you? One of the wonderful things—as well as one of the challenges—about Beading Daily is that every bit of the beading world is being covered. This is a very diverse
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  • Designing with Pearls
    Wild Trellis shows off top-drilled pearls Katie Hacker recently wrote a fun blog entry titled " Then and Now ," where she described the process of pulling out old projects to see how far you've come. (She has a photo of friendships pins
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  • Emergency Jewelry and the Beaders Showcase
    Necklace by Ashley, a teen member of Ohio Beaders Last year, at the age of 14 1/2, Ashley created this beautiful rhodonite, black onyx, and sterling silver necklace and earring set. ( See a close-up of her project .) Ashley creates a lot of "emergency
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  • Meet a Three-Time Star
    Drops of Jupiter coming soon! Ooooooooh, that's so pretty! Are you buying that for Beading Daily ? That's what people kept saying when they walked into my office one morning in June. On my computer screen was a photo of a glass and wirewrapped
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  • Fall Trends in Jewelry Design
    I have mixed feelings about fashion trends. On the one hand, I get bored easily and I like to shake things up. On the other hand, I have a considerable collection of embarrassing photos of me wearing trends that, well, let's just say didn't hold
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  • Surprise!
    When I first became editor of Beading Daily , I was asked to participate in the Beadwork challenge, where the editors receive the same box of beads and they each make something. It’s always fun to see how everyone approaches the challenge—it’s
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  • Welcome to Beading Daily!
    Welcome! I'm so glad you're here—please make yourself at home! I'll admit, I've been experiencing just a bit of what one of my friends calls PPA—Pre-Party Anxiety. It always happens to me sometime between the time I invite
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  • The Bracelet-Earrings-Necklace from Hell, Part Three
    The finished (finally!) necklace What did I do that was so outrageous? I went on Beading Daily and promised that I would have something finished to show in one month's time. Now, I know some of you are probably thinking that doesn't sound so bad
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  • Silver Spacers Take Center Stage
    We often think of silver rondelles and daisy spacers as just that—spacers that add a bit of silver sparkle here and there in a piece. The Serenity Blossoms necklace features more than 350 small silver beads. The back of the necklace is just silver
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  • Moroccan Dreams
    A close look at the Moroccan Dreams Necklace reveals a number of design tips: • Seed beads are often overlooked in stringing projects They do take longer to string—it takes 24 size 13 beads to make one inch of this 15 inch necklace! On the
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  • Getting Loopy: How To Make The Perfect Wire Loop (after a bit of practice)
    Beading Daily contributing editor Sandi Wiseheart offers some advice about making wire loops: Even though it may be invisible, the type of string, wire, thread, or cord you choose to make your jewelry is critical to the overall success of the piece. Heavy
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