🧵 FREE CHARTS FOR ELEVEN BEAD CRAFTS•🎬 BEAD TV — REAL CRAFT VIDEO, REAL MAKERS•🎮 FREE GAMES · NO SIGN-UP · NO DOWNLOAD•🧠 GUIDES THAT ACTUALLY WORK•🪡 PEYOTE · LOOM · KUMIHIMO · CROCHET · FUSE BEADS• 🧵 FREE CHARTS FOR ELEVEN BEAD CRAFTS•🎬 BEAD TV — REAL CRAFT VIDEO, REAL MAKERS•🎮 FREE GAMES · NO SIGN-UP · NO DOWNLOAD•🧠 GUIDES THAT ACTUALLY WORK•🪡 PEYOTE · LOOM · KUMIHIMO · CROCHET · FUSE BEADS•
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🪡 Eleven crafts · free charts · real videos

Beady heaven, on a string.

The bead-craft playground — print real charts, watch actual crafters work, pick up some colors, and mess with dumb little games.

🪡 This month's Bench-Along

The first Saturday of every month: the month's chart drops here, we bead the same piece together, and finished cuffs go in the bench gallery. Free, no sign-up.

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Explore

Eleven crafts, one friendly bench.

Everything from a two-row brick-stitch charm to a spiral bead-crochet rope. Pick a craft to learn it — the app, Bead Bench, draws every chart the way that craft is really worked.

Bead-craft guides

Long-form, tested guides — the supplies to buy, the moves to learn, and the fixes for the things that go wrong.

All eleven crafts

  • 🟫 Loom — warp-faced bead weaving on a loom. The classic cuff.
  • 🟪 Peyote — offset columns, from bands to kandi cuffs.
  • 🟥 Brick stitch — offset rows that build shapes and fringe.
  • ⬜ Square stitch — steady, sturdy rows like a grid of bricks.
  • 🟩 Herringbone — columns of pairs that lean into Vs (Ndebele).
  • 🔗 Right-angle weave — a net of little four-bead units.
  • 💎 Bezels — a snug glass bezel around a rivoli stone.
  • 🌀 Kumihimo — braids on a disk, plain cord or beaded.
  • 🧵 Bead crochet — ropes worked with a hook and a pattern of beads.
  • ❌ Bead cross-stitch — beads cross-stitched onto Aida fabric.
  • 🔥 Fuse beads — Perler and Hama on pegboards, ironed to fuse.

Free games — no download, no sign-up

  • 🕹️ Bead Frenzy — Pop chains of matching beads, grab the gold, dodge the 🚫 dot. Beat your best in thirty seconds.
  • 🪡 Thread the Needle — Hold to let the bead sink onto the thread, let go right in the sweet spot.
  • 🧠 Bead Memory — Sixteen beads, eight pairs, a letter toggle for look-alike colors.
  • 🔔 Bead Says — Five beads sing a tune. Repeat it as it grows.
  • 📦 Peg Catch — Catch falling fuse beads in the box, dodge the hot iron. Twenty seconds.
  • 🌀 Kumihimo Disk — Eight bobbins light in order around the disk — repeat the braid's rhythm as it grows. Bead-site only.

Bead science

  • 📏 Why a size 11/0 isn't eleven of anything — The sizing system nobody defends, decoded on the Learn page.
  • ✨ How a bead gets its sparkle — Silver-lined, AB, picasso: finishes are paint made hot.
  • 🧮 The beads-per-inch math — How many beads make a 7-inch cuff? A table that answers it.

Teachers and club leaders: every chart on the Charts page is free to print for a class. No sign-up, no watermark.

What's here

All the beads, none of the cart.

Charts you can print today, video worth watching, interactive tools that make colors make sense, and games for the tea-break. All free.

Free charts

Starter charts for loom, peyote, brick and more — rendered at bead size with a color key and a shopping count. Print straight from the page.

Studio & Bead TV

Design a cuff in the browser, find colors that go together, and channel-surf tutorials from real crafters on Bead TV.

Learn the craft

Guides, bead science, a picture-full glossary, and the tiny honest supply kit a first-timer should buy.

Get new charts & guides?

We add fresh charts, guides and videos regularly. Send an email with LIST in the subject line and you'll be told when something new lands. No spam — there's barely any mail anyway.

Get the drops 🫧

Building with the app? Bead Bench works offline and never needs an account.

The bench family

One bench, a whole workshop.

Bead Bench is part of a small family of maker apps. Each works alone — together they take a project the whole way: plan the cord, braid it, finish the ends, dye your own thread to do it all again.