Interactive Beading Techniques

Once you have mastered the crimping bead technique, you will be well on your way to creating your own jewelry pieces. Crimping is used to attach clasps and toggles on jewelry pieces. To view the crimping animation, click here.

For additional information on the crimping technique click here.

Head or eye pins are used mainly to create dangles or earrings and bead links. Head pins are lengths of wire with a pin head at one end and eye pins are lengths of wire with a loop on one end. To view the head pin animation, click here.

Peyote or gourd stitch is a derivative of stitches used by Native Americans in beaded ceremonial objects. Peyote stitch has several variations, tubular, flat and circular. Flat Even Count Peyote is the simplest version for beginners and this is the version in our animation. The animation makes it easy to learn the basic technique of this stitch.