Beads and Beading Supplies

Robin Atkins, Bead Artist

For many years, I offered a variety of shaped beads, beading needles and thread, ziplock storage bags, acid-free interleaving paper, and nylon cord for sale on a mail-order basis. Meanwhile, the internet has grown, offering more and more beading supplies from large vendors equipped to handle on-line shopping carts. Being already beyond normal retirement age, and because suppies are readily available on-line, I am currently not in the mail order business.

Here are a few tips
for buying some of the beading supplies
which were sold on this page in the past.

Interleaving paper, acid-free I use this easily-needled paper as a stabilizer for bead embroidery. Available at art or archival supply sources used by museums and bookmakers.	John James beading needles I use these needkes (sizes 11, 12, and 10) for bead embroidery and some beadweaving projects. Most bead vendors stock them either in 25-packs or 4-packs.
Bead storage bags, 4 mil, 2 x 3 inches I store all my beads in these sturdy bags! Many vendors carry them. Search for "4 mil ziplock bags".	Bonded nylon cord, #18 weight Used for finger weaving and micro-macrame. Also called "S-Lon"; many colors available. Search for "micro macrame cord".

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