Supplies Shop

I sell a range of supplies used in my Tutorials, plus a few other lovely bits and pieces. This includes an extensive range of glass cabochons hand painted by me, goldwork wires, tape measures and a selection of harder to find beads. Click on the images or links below to go straight to the relevant section of my Etsy Shop.

Goldwork wires

I sell a small range of high quality Indian goldwork wires, including 10 in pearl purl and over 40 colours of wonderful 1mm smooth purl – the largest range in the UK. This is sold singly by weight or in colour packs, please again contact me if you’d like to purchase larger quantities or would like a custom pack made for a special project.

Inspiration packs

Experimental pack for beadworkers and hand embroiderers – contains a comprehensive selection (detailed below) of goldwork wires, Japanese seed beads, Czech shaped beads, sequins, crystals, cup chains, sequin film and unusual metallic soft pleather. Ideal for a beadworker looking to move into bead embroidery, a bead embroiderer looking to add goldwork, or the hand embroiderer looking to add goldwork, beads and varied embellishments to their practice. Each pack is unique, and has been put together as a one off item using items drawn from my shop or from my personal stash of beadwork and embroidery materials, built up over many years. I had great fun making these packs, and I hope you’ll have fun exploring their contents and make some really fabulous pieces!

Cabochons

I offer hand painted Pebeo paint, acrylic ink and Liberty Tana Lawn cabochons, sold singly or as sets. I’m happy to make a unique set for you for a project, so please contact me to discuss options.

Crystals

I often carry a selected range of Chinese made and sourced crystals, but they generally sell out quite quickly. Usually I’ve bought them for use in my own work, but in higher quantities than I will use, so I offer the remainder for sale. This means I’m less likely to repeat them than say my goldwork wires, where I’m aiming to hold a comprehensive continuous range – occasionally where a range is popular I will try to repeat (for example the Flower Chatons), but even then my supplier’s stocks are a bit unreliable – do reach out if you’d like me to try to restock anything though as I’m always happy to try.

These crystals are great – I try to pick and try ranges that offer something different to the standard selections – perhaps a different shape or unusual finish. Whilst they’re not of the same quality as top brands of European crystal, neither are they anything like as expensive, and they offer something different in terms of unusual colours, shapes and finishes. To avoid quality issues each stone is individually checked and packed carefully by me, so you can be assured that any of the chipped or scratched ones you sometimes see in Chinese crystal packs have been weeded out and won’t be sent to you (although you may see them with the damage carefully disguised in my own work – don’t want to waste any after all!).

These are the loose crystals, cabochons, rivolis and chatons:

Crystals in settings:

And 2mm cup chain – ideal for fine work in bead embroidery:

Filigrees

Some really pretty matt coated coloured filigrees – these are on a laser cut steel base, so the detailing is fantastic, and they’re spray painted in an eye catching soft matt coloured coating – a bit of fun! Available in skulls or wings. You can see some examples of how I’ve used these in my work on my Instagram account @theindecisivebeader.

I also carry some amazing glossy painted goldfish filigrees which look amazing as giant earrings.

Other supplies

Beads, wire and other useful supplies for your beadwork and embroidery projects.

Sequins

I sometimes sell a selection of the sequins I use in my own work in a variety of packs – my favourite are the flower packs which took me nearly a year to source the sequins for as I wanted to include some specific shapes, profiles and sizes.