Open the door to your creativity with a visit to Beadworks in Toronto at our bright new location on Gerrard Street East. Choose from a dazzling selection of beads from around the world including bone, metal, semi-precious stones, glass, crystal, fimo, clay, and wood. We also have a large selection of seed beads - perfect for loom work, bead embroidery or simple stringing.At Beadworks, we also carry findings (jewellery hardware), wire, various stringing materials, tools, how-to books, gift baskets and our own beautiful beaded jewelry pieces! If you have broken costume jewellery that you’d like to start wearing again, bring your pieces to our shop; we do minor jewelry repairs and can likely have your piece fixed for you in no time. Call us to book a beading class or beading party today!more...See more text
Crafty types love Jo Penny’s lavish, colourful den, Beadworks. Beaders are well-served at Beadworks, which offers thousands and thousands of beads in every material and hue imaginable, plus all of the tools of the trade —hammers, pliers, bead looms — and findings such as clasps, headpins and ear wires. But the welcoming, bedazzling space pulls in plenty of non-beaders too, whether they’re after handmade jewellery or just plain curious.
Much of the endless assortment of beads are packaged in little pill bottles stacked on shelves by colour leading all the way to the back of the shop. Within the pinks or blues or greens or teals, the beads are ordered even further by colour gradient. “I’m a little bit OCD. To keep track of the inventory in here is pretty mindboggling. But it’s all up here,” Jo says, pointing to her cranium. “It’s not computerized or anything. It’s just a bit of obsessive compulsive behaviour keeping everything in its place.”
Jo is amazingly knowledgeable and helpful about beads - a true beadologist! I love going to her shop and browsing her world of beads. She has an incredible array of jewelry, including necklaces, earrings and hair ornaments. Also noteworthy are the glasses chains that she makes. An incredible BEADFEST of possibilities. Definitely, in my opinion, one of the best bead sources in Toronto. Lydia D.
