LINKS
These are sites for prayers and mantras:
These are a few sites with crystals:
A Site with beautiful Jewelry made with precious gems:
Beadwork and related sites:
A Google search for the key word “beadwork” will yield over 3 million sites on the Internet. This is an exciting time to play with beads, and artists are using them to make anything from jewelry for adornment, to portraiture, to embellishment of household items, to contemporary sculpture. A plethora of magazines devoted to the art and craft of beadwork has sprung onto the market in the last decade and expositions/trade shows held throughout the United States are focused on beads and design to showcase the incredible diversity of artisans.
Below are a few favorite Web sites:
http://beadwork.about.com
Paula S. Morgan has organized an exhaustive site of tutorials, examples, patterns, networks to other great bead sites, book reviews, and buyer’s guides for tools and materials. New articles are posted about every week. This is a fabulous resource that will take months to explore.
http://suzannecooper.com
Author and artist Suzanne Cooper has beautifully illustrated and well-written tutorials on the most common techniques; her gallery is superb and her site is updated regularly with her latest creations.
http://www.NativeTech.org
Besides being a resource for all things Native American, this is an excellent site for beaders. History, instructions, and examples of wampum belts, seed beaded garments and pouches, among many other treasures are here.
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/beads/beadmenu.html
Manidoominens site features beaded Woodland bandoliers as well as culture, stories, and instructions for traditional Woodlands, Plains and Southwest tribe’s styles of beadwork.
http://www.beadandbutton.com/
The magazine for people who love beads, beading, and bead making, Bead and Button is published every other month.
http://www.thebeadsite.com/
Possibly the most comprehensive bead site on the worldwide web.
http://www.thebeadmuseum.com/
Founded in 1984 to establish a permanent collection of beads and adornments of all cultures, past and present.
Your local bead or craft store holds several classes every month on different beading techniques for those who prefer hands-on learning. They also carry an array of seed, lampwork, ethnic, plastic, metal (gold, sterling, brass, bronze, nickel, etc.), ceramic, semiprecious and precious stone beads, plus tools, beading needles, threads, different types of coated wire, and jewelry findings (clasps, crimp beads, etc.). All of these items can be purchased on the Internet, too (the advertisers in the bead journals are reliable sources).
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