The bead-craft playground — print real charts, watch actual crafters work, pick up some colors, and mess with dumb little games.
Real crafters, real stitches — the videos worth your tea break. Press play right here, or open the full feed on Bead TV.
Explore
Everything from a two-row brick-stitch charm to a spiral bead-crochet rope. Pick a craft to learn it — the app, Bead Bench, draws every chart the way that craft is really worked.
Long-form, tested guides — the supplies to buy, the moves to learn, and the fixes for the things that go wrong.
Even count, odd count, the turn at the edge, and why your row 2 looks like a disaster (it isn't). Tension fixes included.
Read the guide →The 8-strand round braid step by step, cord lengths that don't run out, and when to add beads without wrecking the braid.
Read the guide →Set up a loom without tears, read a chart, finish the warp threads into something you'd actually wear.
Read the guide →Pegboards, ironing paper, and the heat setting that fuses without curling. Pixel art rules that make designs read.
Read the guide →What 11/0 actually means, Delica vs round vs pony, thread, needles, and the small honest kit a first-timer should buy.
Read the guide →Teachers and club leaders: every chart on the Charts page is free to print for a class. No sign-up, no watermark.
What's here
Charts you can print today, video worth watching, interactive tools that make colors make sense, and games for the tea-break. All free.
Starter charts for loom, peyote, brick and more — rendered at bead size with a color key and a shopping count. Print straight from the page.
Design a cuff in the browser, find colors that go together, and channel-surf tutorials from real crafters on Bead TV.
Guides, bead science, a picture-full glossary, and the tiny honest supply kit a first-timer should buy.
We add fresh charts, guides and videos regularly. Send an email with LIST in the subject line and you'll be told when something new lands. No spam — there's barely any mail anyway.
Building with the app? Bead Bench works offline and never needs an account.
The bench family
Bead Bench is part of a small family of maker apps. Each works alone — together they take a project the whole way: plan the cord, braid it, finish the ends, dye your own thread to do it all again.
Stitch-math, whip tapers and Turk's head grids for leather & paracord — prints a true-size end-cap plan for your kumihimo cords.
🧶The weaving-and-stitching sibling: tablet weaving, inkle, macramé, alphas and rugs — with real drafts.
🍇Dye your own thread or cord with natural-dye calculators — "2% alum" always says 2% of what.
🌍The live Earth on a desk globe — bead today's clouds and the day-night terminator from real satellite data.
⚙️Costume sound triggers, a live-sky watch face, e-paper timers — the rest of the suite, all in closed testing.