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Bead&Button is the original beading magazine and the most comprehensive one available today. Published six times a year, Bead&Button carefully selects a variety of projects that you can make and wear with pride. Bead stitching is front and center, but you’ll also find projects that incorporate wirework, kumihimo, stringing, and other jewelry-making techniques. You can subscribe to Bead&Button or find it on the newsstand.
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Six times a year, Bead&Button magazine brings you new beading projects, helpful product reviews, and many other features that make it a must-read for beaders everywhere. It’s where we debut our newest projects and patterns, so you’ll be the first to try your hand at making them. If you bead because you like to practice a relaxing and satisfying craft, Bead&Button is for you. You can count on our instructions because we carefully select and test each project before we publish it. Each issue contains basic how-tos that help you complete a piece of jewelry worry-free, start to finish.
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Julia Gerlach, Bead&Button magazine
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Connie Whittaker, Bead&Button magazine
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Diane Jolie, Bead&Button magazine
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Lora Groszkiewicz
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Lisa Bergman
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For more than 20 years, Bead&Button has been the favorite complete resource for beading enthusiasts worldwide. Every issue features fully tested jewelry projects using a wide variety of beads – from seed beads to art beads, shaped beads to two-hole beads – and a broad range of techniques. Your ad in Bead&Button reaches beaders worldwide, in 89 countries on six continents. Bead&Button has consistently had the highest paid circulation of any other beading magazine published.
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Want to know what's happening in the world of beading? This is where to look! Bead Buzz is a collection of voices, thoughts, and tips from Bead&Button magazine editors and contributors. Their goal? Educate, inspire, and have a little fun. Check back often!
Get your designs published by Connie Whittaker, Bead&Button magazine
The February birthstone by Caroline Wittenberg
Welcome the Year of the Dog with beads by Diane Jolie, Bead&Button magazine
Each year, the Bead&Button Show sponsors BeadDreams, a juried competition of exceptional bead artistry from around the world.
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