Essential tools for the craft of beading can include items for cutting, shaping, stringing, and organizing your materials.

Cutting and Shaping Tools

Beading pliers: Chain-nose pliers for gripping and bending wire, round-nose pliers for making loops, and flat-nose pliers for holding components.
Flush cutters: A sharp pair of wire cutters designed to leave a flat, clean end on headpins, earwires, and beading wire.
Knotting tweezers: Specialized tweezers with a fine point to help you push and place knots tightly against beads when working with silk or nylon thread.

Beading needles: Flexible, thin needles (like English beading needles or collapsible eye needles) that make passing thread through small bead holes easy.
Bead design board: A plastic or flocked board with curved grooves and measurement markings to lay out your pattern before stringing.
Beading mat: A soft, textured mat that keeps tiny beads from rolling away while you work.

Storage containers: Clear plastic boxes with small compartments to sort beads by color, size, and type.
Scoops and sorting trays: Small tools to easily return extra beads back into their storage containers.

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Made in Japan

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Made in Japan

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Cross Stitch Favorites

Our range of counted cross stitch kits, and charts includes designs from brands like DMC, Country Threads, Caronie, and Make It . You will find Australian animal and bird designs, floral cross stitch designs, Australian cross stitched landscapes, and childhood or birth celebration designs. Some of our cross stitch charts can be downloaded after purchase