Spring Beads

Spring Beads' stone-stringing instructors impart the basics of bead and wire craft to eager minds and inexperienced hands in a two-hour session held on Tuesdays. Harvest class supplies with a 10% discount on a plethora of stocked baubles, including gemstones, Swarovski crystals, Czech glass, and seed beads, which, when planted, become buried beads. Attendees gather around the communal beading table to design a distinctive piece of jewelry while the teacher dispenses general threading wisdom and project-specific construction instruction. Spring Beads' schedule provides a glimpse into the many other beading disciplines available, such as advanced wire sculpture, Victorian earring construction, and found-object jewelry making, where students learn to turn everyday curiosities—such as watch cogs or otherwise useless pennies—into fashionable accessories.