After a lot of thought and many requests from customers, I have decided to start offering written beading patterns at Jewelry Making Professor.

Our expertise will continue to be on video education, so why written patterns?

I still believe that videos are by far the easiest way to learn jewelry making, especially for beginners and especially for complex patterns.

But many of my more advanced students told me that once they had mastered basic beading techniques that written patterns weren’t as difficult for them to decipher any more.

Speaking from my own experience, I can understand where they are coming from.

I’m still not a big fan of written patterns, but after years of making jewelry it is much easier for me to quickly pick up on the design flow of written jewelry making patterns.

So if I offer written patterns for intermediate and advanced students, they will have more options available to them and will be able to create even more wonderful jewelry pieces.

As I started looking in to offering written patterns I discovered something else.

There are many very talented jewelry instructors out there who have created patterns for teaching at bead shops but they are limited to offering them only to students that take jewelry making classes where they teach.

So by offering their patterns through Jewelry Making Professor they will be able to expand their market to a worldwide audience.

So it’s a win for both jewelry makers and jewelry making instructors.

I have already put a few patterns in the jewelry making store and will continue to add in the future.

You can check them out here:

Beading Patterns

3 Responses to “Beading Patterns at Jewelry Making Professor”

1. Joye Says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 2:11 pm

   I love the video tutorials. Sometimes, it’s confusing with written patterns, simply because of language. Some people may say, “pass through bead again ” or “go back into bead”. This could mean the same thing but sometimes, it can be translate differently to the student reading.

   Although, I’ve learned from and appreciate good written tutorials.

2. Eri Says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

   Hi Joye,

   Thanks for your comment. I agree with you that written patterns can’t compete with videos when it comes to jewelry making instruction, especially for beginners.

   I think many intermediate and advanced students can handle the written patterns, particularly if there are images or photos, because they already have a solid grasp of the basics of the jewelry making technique they are working with.

   Another issue is that it’s more difficult to produce and productize high quality jewelry making videos than it is to produce and productize written beading patterns so that keeps a lot of instructors from being able to offer tutorials.

   I hope that by staring to offer written patterns my customers who are intermediate to advanced can enjoy the talents of other instructors.

   Thanks!
   Eri

3. Flora Says:
   November 24th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

   I have numerous instructions from Andrea Mazzenga – at Buttercup Beads – her instructions and illustrations are really easy to follow. She writes just as if she were sitting right beside you. The projects I’ve completed from them are really beautiful!

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