Beads, etc
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Bead & Button * Eclectic Eccentricity Jewelry * Zurina Ketola * Linda Trent Jewelry * Lounge Luxe Listings * Gros Grain Fabulous * Miss Ellaneous Crafts a Life * Purl Bee *
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Singapore Vive Beads * France Matiere Premiere Online Shop * Tryst *
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Amsterdam
Source: http://www.scifiville.com/amsterdam.shtml
Fabric Albert Cuuyp Straat Market, Amsterdam-Apparently this is the best place for fabric in Amsterdam. I will let you know what I think when I come back! * Beads Beadies, Huidenstraat 6, Amsterdam Tel - +31 - (0)20 - 428 51 61 http://www.beadies.com Coppenhagen Kralen, Rozengracht 54 Tel - +31 - (0)20 - 624 36 81
Barcelona
Source:
Guide To Beadwork *
http://www.guidetobeadwork.com/localstores/europe/ES.cty.html
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g187497-d231525-r6920094-H10_Raco_Del_Pi-Barcelona_Catalonia.html
http://akacontrariwise.blogspot.com/2008/05/search-for-bead-shops-in-barcelona.html
http://duduadudua.blogspot.com/
Paris
http://www.matierepremiere.fr/
Source:
http://books.google.com.my/books?id=0pMuqTPcVB4C&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=beads+paris&source=web&ots=1PIqwHnmmw&sig=TF3OTCVEvQushIeXXCVHQOYgOf4&hl=en#PPA24,M1
http://salidou.canalblog.com/archives/2005/04/21/452515.html
http://www.suzannecooper.com/travel/paris.html
http://www.guidetobeadwork.com/localstores/europe/FR.str.html
http://www.parislogue.com/shopping/
Source: http://www.beadingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2008/04/28/find-and-rate-a-bead-shop-near-you.aspx
Source: http://www.drew-o-rama.com/knitblog/2005/11/je_ne_parle_pas.html
http://cityknitter.typepad.com/cityknitter/2004/10/paris_yarn_stor.html If the link doesn’t work you can find it in my Oct 2004 archives. This is based on an initial store list I received from Kate Gilbert (Needles on Fire) when she was still in Paris * Le Bon Marché and La Droguerie * Personally I am backing la Droguerie. There’s one opposite Maman’s appartment in Montpellier * More central, in the Halles area (metro: Étienne Marcel or Châtelet-Les Halles): La Droguerie (buttons, beads, ribbons and yarn) 9 rue du Jour * Also very central, in the Marais area (metro: Saint Paul or Rambuteau): Anny Blatt, 40 rue des Francs-Bourgeois * Entrée des fournisseurs (ribbons, buttons, etc and some Rowan and Plassard), 8 rue des Francs-Bourgeois
Source: http://www.wildthingsbeads.com/article-bsp.html
Bead Shopping in Paris * A lot of people go to Europe to hunt for glass beads-such as Jablonecs nad Nisou in Czech Republic, or Neu Gablonz in Germany, or Venice, Italy * Paris has two main ways of shopping for beads – the bead district and the flea market * The bead district is located in the heart of Paris, in the region of Les Halles, in the eastern side of the city, arrondisiment 3. It is about four blocks of streets situated within the garment district, so you will find bead stores both retail and wholesale sprinkled around clothing stores that have storefronts filled with maybe only one style of dress or jacket, but boxes and boxes filled with them, and workers pushing carts and dollies loaded down with boxes going from street corner to trucks, loading and unloading. Within the bead district is also the sex district, and you will also see sex shops and video arcades, strip joints and prostitutes everywhere * Although I have not listed every wholesale business, these are some of the bead businesses within this area. Most have both a retail shop and a wholesale section for larger purchases. Bead Stores:
Perles Box: 1 Rue de Clairvoux, also Turbigo St
Tout a Loisirs: 50 Rue des Archives
Matiere Premiere: 12 Rue de Sevigne
La Boite a Perles: 194 Rue Saint Denis
Fried Freres: 13 Rue de Cairo
Le Detail Quitue: 43 Rue Bobillot
Gudule: 52 Rue de Richelieu
Creez et Decorez: 31 Rue Victor Duruy
La Drougerie: Rue de Temple.
Vernot wire: 145 Street of the Temple
Montplaisir Creation: 15 Street of the Fountains of the Temple, Blgd C, 3rd floor.
These shops and warehouses will carry an assortment of glass and stone beads, pearls, findings, buttons and trimmings. Some you might find boring, but some you will find very exciting. Fried Freres on Cairo St is a very exciting shop. The Fried brothers started off in Vienna, Austria in 1894 as young 20 year olds, and soon moved to Paris to be in the heart of the fashion industry. They had offices in London and Gablonz during the height of their business, but today there is only the Paris location. Their main focus is German and Czech glass beads, but we found an enormous section of old steel cuts and French seed beads, including charlotte cuts. They have a nice museum of beautiful steel cut tapestries and purses on display, and is worth visiting.