International Beading Week 2025 may be over, but there are still a few FREE year-long projects that you can join in with any time of the year - please see below.
A big thank you to all designers and traders who supported International Beading Week 2025. We look forward to doing it all again next year, so save the date - Saturday 25th July to Sunday 2nd August 2026.
For more information on how you can take part in next year's event, please contact us.
2025-2026 Year-long events
IBW Year-long Rainbow Project
The Beadworkers Guild invite you to take part in our IBW Year-long Rainbow Challenge.
Anybody can take part, from beginner to advanced, non-designer to professional - it's just a fun to do event via Facebook to keep your beading fingers busy during the year.
How does it work?
Each month from the end of July to mid-July the following year, we encourage beaders from all around the world to bead either a single component or part of a continuous piece, using the twelve colours of the IBW logo, and post a progress picture on our IBW Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/internationalbeadingweek/. You can choose to let people know what you are making or reveal all at the end of the year, the choice is yours.
At the end of the year we publish all the finished projects on our IBW Year-long Project Gallery to showcase your work and to encourage other beaders to take part the following year.
To download a copy of the event guidelines click here!
Happy beading!
Stitched by Jill Renson - 2023
The Beading Circle
Each star is a token of remembrance, a heartfelt acknowledgment of a life gone too soon. These keepsakes are gifted to families who have experienced pregnancy loss, offering them something tangible to honour their baby’s memory.
This is a very special project which we hope the world wide beading community will support.
For further details about the 'Star Hendy Project' please visit: https://beadworkersguild.com/international-projects/
Norgard Designs
Event: The Beaded Word Global Project
Norgard Designs have supported International Beading Week for the last six years, covering 6 unique global projects - each offering a series of free lessons and lectures.
This year's lessons lead by Anvi Shah, explain how to make a specific beaded form which you can donate to the project to use in a larger artwork and the lectures lead by Kathryn Shriver, will help expand your beady knowledge. You can also view an update on past projects here!
We hope you will support us in creating 'The Beaded Word' Project!
www: https://norgarddesigns.com/
