There are soooo many different things you can do with seed beads: string, weave off-loom or on a loom, embroider, glue, embed them in resin...there must be even more! Here are all the seed bead tutorials and resources from Beading Arts. Some of these are quick and dirty techniques, and some follow a larger project from beginning to end. Enjoy!
Resources:
Bead embroidery techniques
All Beading Arts e-books
Free e-book on bead embroidery stitches
Every Bead Has a Story e-book
Some Assembly Required e-book
Bored By Back Stitch e-book
Best of the basics online
Arm Candy e-book
Seed bead components
Beaded beads tutorials
Tutorials:
An open-centered triangle bail
Beadwoven bails for pendants
Beadwoven rope necklace wrap-up
Piano keys - Russian leaf pattern
Russian leaves - diagonal peyote stitch
Ruffled peyote stitch rope necklace
An indespiral bead rope necklace
Pearl spiral rope necklace
Chenille stitch rope necklace
Twisted herringbone rope necklace
Embellished peyote rope necklace
Russian spiral rope necklace
Beadwoven flower pendants
Teeny tiny bead embroidered pendants
An embroidered vintage napkin
A more challenging bead embroidery pendant
Recycle your mistakes into bead embroidery
An easy glass donut bead embroidery pendant
Learn bead embroidery with easy pendant projects
The Lady of Shalott (revisited)
A bead embroidery pendant update (leopard skin jasper)
Stitch a clock motif for your bead embroidery
Right angle peyote stitch
Fierce - a Tribal Stripes bead embroidery tutorial
Tribal Stripes bead embroidered pendant
A free chapter from Bored By Back Stitch
Flat chenille stitch
Orinoco Flow bead embroidered necklace
Night Sky necklace
Waves beaded necklace
Jewel bead embroidered pendants
A bead embroidered charoite pendant
A spiral herringbone bangle
A simple spiral rope
Amethyst tree bead embroidered necklace
Bead embroidered rhodochrosite pendant
Bead embroidered leopard skin jasper pendant
Bead embroidered ammonite pendant
Square-cornered jasper bead embroidery pendant
Triple cabochon bead embroidery pendant
Black glass pendant bead embroidery
Albion stitch spark plug
Blue Rainbow
Dutch spiral earrings
How to stitch the Dutch spiral
An alien flying saucer beaded bead
A wire bracelet featuring beaded beads
Cellini spiral beaded beads
How to start an amulet bag
Turquoise bead embroidered soft cuff bracelet
All Buttoned Up: a bead embroidery pin
Freeform beadweaving and bead embroidery
Portal to Dreams
Purple pleated silk shibori ribbon bracelet tutorial
Resin "opal" pendant
Right angle weave earrings
Cellini spiral
Lilac button pendant
Dichroic glass pendant
3D pyramid form
Black + copper bead embroidered pendant
Seed bead components
3D orb form
Orthoceras pendant
Spring ribbon necklace with beaded beads (how to make brick stitch beads)
3D crescent form
Dragonfly + Heart necklace
3D circle form
Free form paua shell bead embroidered necklace
Metal mesh bead embroidered necklace
Necklace with soutache braid trim
Pretty As You Please bracelet
Milk chocolate cuff bracelet
Bittersweet Wrap-sody cuff bracelet
Gypsy Rose shibori ribbon bracelet
Shibori ribbon bead embroidered bracelet
Bead embroidered turquoise pendant
Combining stitches in a pink bead embroidered pendant
Soutache experiments
Bead embroidered pendant with antique button
Red bead embroidered pendant with drops
A "Bezel Effects" bead embroidered pendant
Myst of Avalon
Sequintastic September
Repairing a beaded dress
Easy seed bead woven bracelet
Stringing up a beaded bead necklace
Metal mesh pins
Bead embroidered paua shell centerpiece
My TAST quilt for 2012
Seed bead necklace
Geometric bead embroidery
Beaded Lily necklace
Ancient Waves necklace
Lava bead embroidered necklace
Brass wire flower necklace
Beaded turtles
Woven seed bead bezel for a lampwork bead
Sequin and bead quilt
A beaded hair comb
Peyote spiral ring bracelet
Beaded postcards
Turquoise tube bead necklace
A free form peyote necklace
Blossoms of the Moonlit Waves
A bead embroidered bracelet with cabochons
Making an easy bezel for a curved surface
Perth the Turtle finds a home (spiral rope)
Polymer clay beaded cabochon
Ocean Lariat
Beaded ornaments for your tree or table
Beaded ornament covers
Midnight at the Oasis
Floral seed bead chain
Embroidered cuff bracelets
Making barnacles with seed beads
Autumn Vines
A sparkling rivoli pendant
Dark Lady
A wrapped paua necklace
Free form seed bead necklace
Spiral square stitch
Autumn Arbor
Beaded cabochon pendants
A free form beaded bauble
Beaded flowers
Floral bead embroidered necklace
Interesting spiral
Deco scarab necklace
Lady of Shalott
Treasure Chest: a basic bead embroidered project
Peyote stitch a beaded bead
The spiral stitch
A free form beaded pendant from a geode
Two drop peyote beaded beads
Right angle weave bezel and bail
Cigar box handbag
A simple square stitch bail
Twisted peyote spiral necklace
Simple cuff bracelet
Suppliers:
Beadaholique
A huge selection of all sorts of beads...everything you can imagine
WhimBeads
Delicas and other Japanese seed beads in all sizes, fancy shapes
Empyrean Beads
Many antique and vintage seed beads
Kawahara
Seed beads with dichroic coating ~ fantastic!
FusionBeads
Great selection of Japanese seed beads with quantity discounts.
Beyond Beadery
A site which tends to have all the newest shapes and colors.
Rings and Things
A huge selection of larger seed beads and mixtures
A huge selection of larger seed beads and mixtures
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