Bugle Beads
Bugle beads are thin tube-shaped glass seed beads and are often used for making beaded fringe to adorn lampshades, curtains and clothing.
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Bugle Beads
Cube Beads
Miyuki cube beads are also known as square beads and less uniform in shape than many of Miyuki's seed beads. They have relatively large holes and can fit on a narrow leather cord.
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Cube Beads
Delica Beads
Delica beads are used widely for peyote stitch, brick stitch, and beadweaving on looms because their cylinder shape gives the finished piece a flat surface maximizing any design or pattern.
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Delica Beads
Drop Beads
The 3.4mm drop beads are a type of Japanese seed bead that are formed into tiny top-drilled teardrops.
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Drop Beads
Japanese Seed Beads
Seed beads are preferred for beaded lace, texture and ornamentation, stringing, and other uses where their rounded edges will fit together better on a curve than the straight edges of a cylinder bead.
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Japanese Seed Beads
Magatamas
Like drop beads, magatamas are good for fringe and embellishment. Long magatamas resemble a dagger or spear-shaped czech glass bead, but their holes are on a slant so they lean in one direction when strung.
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Magatamas
Tila Beads
Tila beads are flat two-holed glass seed beads that are sometimes described as a chiclet shape.
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Tila Beads
Triangle Beads
Triangle beads are best used for bead stringing, beaded lace work, and beadweaving when a more uneven look is desired and have large holes so they can be used on leather cord, and incorporated into knitting projects as well as micro-macrame.
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