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A little idea.
Something you can wear.

A colour you love. A shape you keep sketching. Turn it into a loom bracelet or a pair of brick stitch earrings, with a little help from Bead Atelier.

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Lapis Mesa, a blue and lavender loom bracelet with gold end bars, shown as a cuff on linen
From a chart to a piece you can make.Lapis Mesa

How it works

A few steps from
“what if” to made by you.

You bring the idea. The studio helps you find the colours, see the piece and keep your place as you make it.

01 Find your starting point

Begin with a spark.

Choose a free pattern and make it your own, turn a simple picture into beads, or start with a blank bracelet grid or an earring outline.

Choose Bracelet or Earrings, pick a starting point and size, then select Create pattern. There is no account to create before you can try.

Browse the patterns Start from a picture
The Start a new pattern dialog: Bracelet and Earrings choices, starting options and template cards, with a Create pattern button
Choose what to make and where to begin.

02 Make it your colours

Bring your colours
to life.

Try different colours and finishes, then turn your design in 3D. Lay a bracelet flat, wrap it into a cuff or see an earring hanging from its hook.

Choose a bead in Project palette, then use Draw or Fill on your chart. Open Browse bead library to add colours.

Preview colours and measurements are a guide. Bead batches, thread tension and fittings affect the finished piece.

Take a pattern for a spin
Your chartDetail of the Lapis Mesa chart: numbered rows of blue, turquoise, lavender and gold cells
Your beadsThe same Lapis Mesa detail shown with bead shapes, holes and surface finishes
One pattern, from chart to bead preview.
Lapis Mesa in the real editor: bead palette and drawing tools on the left, the numbered chart in the centre, and a 3D bracelet preview with Ring selected on the right
Your palette, chart and 3D preview, together.
  1. 01 /
    Pick a bead

    Choose a colour from your project palette.

  2. 02 /
    Edit your chart

    Draw a detail or fill an area with colour.

  3. 03 /
    See the piece

    Select Flat, Draped or Ring and drag to turn.

03 Settle in and make

A chart for your
making table.

Print a PDF with a colour key, bead counts and written rows. Or follow along on screen, one row at a time, while Make mode remembers where you stopped.

Your bead list includes manufacturer colour codes and estimated grams, so you can plan what to buy.

Open Export → Pattern PDF, choose your paper size and sections, then select Create PDF. Prefer working on screen? Switch to Make.

Learn the stitches
The Pattern PDF export dialog with A4 and US Letter paper sizes, colour and black-and-white printing, chart scale, included sections and a Create PDF button
Choose what goes into your PDF.

Save & share

Yours to keep.
Yours to share.

Stay private while you design. Choose to publish when you are ready to let someone else see it.

Keep a copy for yourself.

Drafts are saved in this browser on this device. They do not sync between devices, and clearing site data can remove them.

Export a pattern file to keep a separate copy you can open again later.

Find your drafts

Publish when you are ready.

Publishing creates a public pattern page and a private edit link. There is no account or password.

Keep the edit link somewhere safe. Anyone with it can change or remove the pattern, and we cannot recover a lost link.

Find your saved edit links

Your privacy

A little clarity
before you begin.

Here is what stays on your device, what sharing makes public, and how to choose whether visits are measured.

What stays on my device?

Unpublished patterns and imported photos stay in your browser. They are not uploaded while you design.

When you publish, your pattern, its pictures, title, description, tags and chosen display name become public.

What do you measure?

The live site uses Google Analytics 4 to understand visits, popular pages, feature use and general traffic sources. Google receives general device and visit information and uses analytics cookies to recognise returning browsers. Advertising features and Google signals are disabled.

We do not include draft contents, project names or private edit keys in the data we send. Private edit and draft links are excluded from analytics.

See Google’s Privacy Policy for how Google processes data.

How do you prevent spam and remember likes?

To reduce spam, requests are limited using a coded network identifier. Likes use a random identifier saved in your browser.

Your choice, in this browser.

Analytics respects Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track. You can also turn it off below. Your preference stays on this device; clearing site data resets it.

Your analytics preference can be changed when JavaScript is enabled.

Your next little project

What will you make?

Start with a pattern you love. Make the next version yours.

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Bead names describe colours. Product names such as Delica and MIYUKI belong to their owners. Bead Atelier is not affiliated with a bead maker.