Bead Bench is a bead-craft playground: free charts to print, curated video from real crafters, interactive tools, dumb little games, and guides written at the bench. It's the web home of Bead Bench, the Android pattern app for eleven bead crafts — loom, peyote, brick, square and herringbone stitch, right-angle weave, bezels, kumihimo, bead crochet ropes, bead cross-stitch and fuse beads.
The app draws charts the way each craft is really worked — peyote on offset columns, kumihimo and brick on offset rows, bead crochet as a half-bead spiral. This site keeps that promise in browser form: the Studio draws peyote on offsets too, the free charts print with true-size check bars, and the guides explain the craft rather than merely decorating it.
The site is made by Jonathan Capone, who also built the Bead Bench app, teaches art and technology, and writes about the projects at jonathancapone.com. The app store lives at cosnfx.store, and the other craft in the family has its own site — Fiber Bench's.
Say hi at hello@jonathancapone.com — suggestions for charts, guides and games are genuinely welcome.