Images of hippie-era love beads and Native American-inspired headbands can condemn beading in jewelry and accessories to appearing quaint at best. But the artisan level of contemporary beaders ...

N.E.W. Beads and Jewelry in Bellevue is unique in that it not only has beads but is a venue for local artists to showcase and sell their pieces! Jo brought along a special guest --Emmy Kretche, as her ...

Centuries before Europeans arrived with glass trading beads, Native people who lived in what is now Minnesota were making beads from stone, shells, teeth and bone. Dakota and Ojibwe women used these ...

Kids have done it since string and macaroni noodles existed on the same planet. Today, you can find it everywhere from dime stores to Bergdorf’s. Beaded jewelry, it seems, never loses its timeless ...

Loveland bead artist Lourdes Goelitz only got into beading because her friend kept asking her to go to a meeting with her beading group. Goelitz then figured she could bead some rosaries for a ...

No one does beads quite like Susan Alexandra, the eponymous accessory line of candy-colored earrings and handbags strung with the kind of acrylic orbs you made friendship bracelets with as a kid.

When Mike Schur, Ed Helms and I pitched our show “Rutherford Falls,” I wore my “power pieces” to every meeting. I sported Native American jewelry that I knew would make me enter each room with my chin ...