Bead Bench — the bloghttps://beadbench.com/news/Notes + guides from Bead Benchen Welcome to the bead-craft sitehttps://beadbench.com/news/welcome.htmlhttps://beadbench.com/news/welcome.htmlThu, 05 Nov 2026 05:50:40 GMTWhat the Bead Bench site is, why it's free, and how the site and the app share one idea: charts that sit the way the beads do. The peyote start, made honesthttps://beadbench.com/news/peyote-start.htmlhttps://beadbench.com/news/peyote-start.htmlThu, 05 Nov 2026 05:50:40 GMTWhy the first two peyote rows are picked up together, what an up-bead is, and how the app validates your stringing direction by simulating it — the chart made real. November on the benchhttps://beadbench.com/news/whats-new-november.htmlhttps://beadbench.com/news/whats-new-november.htmlThu, 05 Nov 2026 05:50:40 GMTNovember's bench builds: what is new on Bead Bench and why it helps. Beads by the gram: the counting tablehttps://beadbench.com/news/gram-table.htmlhttps://beadbench.com/news/gram-table.htmlThu, 05 Nov 2026 05:50:40 GMTA chart says 1,200 beads. Beads are sold by the gram. The app's sourced table — Delica 11/0 at 200 beads/g in a 7.2 g tube, Miyuki round 11/0 at 110/g, ponies at 3.5/g — turns the counts into purchases. Kongō gumi — the braid that laced samurai armorhttps://beadbench.com/news/braid-count.htmlhttps://beadbench.com/news/braid-count.htmlThu, 05 Nov 2026 05:50:40 GMTThe armor braid's history and structure: sixteen strands, eight folded threads, 250–300 m per suit of armor, the ice-water quenching step — and the count of every two-color pattern it admits (1,162; Holden, Bridges 2022). Before the beads: the shopping mathhttps://beadbench.com/news/shopping-math.htmlhttps://beadbench.com/news/shopping-math.htmlThu, 05 Nov 2026 05:50:40 GMTChart counts in, a list out: the 10% spare, grams by bead type, tube counts in the shop's real sizes, and thread and cord estimates — the builder runs the same math the app runs. Kandi cuffs are back — and they're charts nowhttps://beadbench.com/news/kandi-cuffs.htmlhttps://beadbench.com/news/kandi-cuffs.htmlThu, 05 Nov 2026 05:50:40 GMTKandi cuffs on pony beads — the friendly entry to beadwork. Why the chunky craft plays by peyote rules, and how the app charts a cuff without lying about the scale. Bead Bench 1.0.9 — what changed — what's in ithttps://beadbench.com/news/bead-bench-1-0-9.htmlhttps://beadbench.com/news/bead-bench-1-0-9.htmlThu, 05 Nov 2026 05:50:40 GMTBead Bench 1.0.9 is now on Google Play on Google Play: eleven crafts, 288 worked examples, a Shopping tab that totals projects, letters on beads for look-alike colors, hands-free mode and true-size printing.