2023 Guest Ambassadors

Our invited ambassadors for IBW 2023 are incredibly excited to be involved with the global beading community.  Get to know a little about them as you read how they feel about beading. As both a bead artist and a bead

Permanent IBW ambassadors

I am in a privileged position as I organise IBW, so I have really been an ambassador since day one, way back in 2015.  My colleague Karen Gibson-Brown suggested having a National beading day, I thought great idea but let’s

2024 Beading Festival Itinerary

A Celebration of the Artist Gustav Klimt – Friday 10th & Saturday 12th May 2024 The Beading Festival is a fun filled three-day residential (optional) event, held at the Staverton Park Hotel &B Golf Club, Daventry Road, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11

Beading groups & classes – Surrey

Ashtead Ashtead Beadworkers contact: Betty Newman tel: 01372 272 971 email: foxhollow@waitrose.com meeting on: the 1st Friday in the month 10:00am to 3:00pm at: Old Freeman’s Clubhouse, City of London Freeman’s School, Park Lane Ashtead KT21 2UE for: Bead and

IBW Traders

Where would we be without our bead shops and traders? Twenty years ago we all struggled to purchase the variety and quality of beads that can be bought today, so we believe it is very important to support our bead

Why not join us?

As a member of the Beadworkers Guild you receive: a quarterly Journal packed with projects, articles of interest, events, information on beading material suppliers, book reviews and details of forthcoming exhibitions and shows. This is published and distributed around the