Free Bead/Jewelry Design Software

Have you always wanted to create your own designs? Well, now you can. And it’s free! Don’t you just love that word?

Patterns For You is a site that allows you to upload your own image/photo and then turn it into a bead pattern using the Loom, Brick, Peyote or Right Angle Weave. Nothing to download. Just pop in your photo, choose your stitch and click. I used a photo of some Jalapeno peppers from my garden. It also tells you the colours to use and how many beads you need.

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Another Fantabulous  On-line Program is found at E-Perle. It is in french but the program is so easy to use that you really don’t need instructions or know french to use it. You don’t need to download any software. I was playing around with it earlier and am in love with it! You can change the size of a bead with a click of a button! (Just click the + or – button and click on the bead.) Change colours, rearrange the beads, and rotate them with a click of your mouse. I can’t say enough good things about it. I could play forever on this. I can design a necklace before making it. See what works and what doesn’t. Check it out here.

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DB-Weave is a software download where you can design your own bead weaving patterns.

DB-Bead is a software download that helps you design beaded ropes.

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Run, don’t walk to download this one! Easy Bead Patterns has so many functions.

Currently the beading program provides the following features:

• Runs under Windows or Mac OS X.
• A palette of 575 11/0 Delica beads.
• A palette of 575 11/0 Hex Cut beads
• Create a pattern from an image.
• Automatically reduce number of colors in an image.
• Create a blank bead patterns.
• Save patterns.
• Export bead patterns as images (jpg, bmp, png).
• Export bead patterns as word charts.
• Rosette, Loom, Brick, Peyote, and Two-Drop Peyote patterns are supported at this time.
• Add beads to the pattern.
• Remove beads from the pattern.
• Replace all beads of a certain color in the pattern.
• Select color from pattern
• Pattern Zoom.
• Print Patterns.
• Palette Editor.
• Undo/Redo previous action.
• Add/Remove Rows and Columns.
• Rotate Patterns.
• Shift beads left/right or up/down.

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A few places to check out:

Beader.org lets you design patterns on-line with no downloads.

Jewelry Pricing Calculator Software lets you do just that!

Swarovski Crystal Design Tool

3D Beading tells you how to Create Beading Patterns using Inkscape (free software) They also show you how to create stunning photos of your work using Gimp (another free software)

Hope you enjoy!