Beadstringers best friend

A Bead Stringer's Best Friend

A bead board can be a bead stringer’s best friend. Though they aren’t 100 percent necessary, using a bead board to help design and string beaded jewelry can be an enormous help and time saver. For the most part, they are very easy to figure out, but this quick tutorial will give you a few steps and tips to help you find your way around a bead board for the first time

First, there are a few different types of bead boards, but most will at the very least have one long groove around the board where you set your beads as you prepare to string. On either side of this groove are markings and numbers. Each long mark represents an inch, and each of the shorter marks represent a half inch. These markings help you determine the final length of a piece of beaded jewelry. In the center of the board, are small extra compartments where you can store beads as you work