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Bead Embroidery

Bead Embroidery is stitching beads onto some fabric, suede, or leather. It differs from the other techniques like bead weaving, bead crochet, and bead knitting. Those techniques add the beads during production and with bead embroidery the beads are added after the finished fabric.

This type of beading has been often used on clothing, decorative textiles, household items, and sometimes belt buckles and handbags.

There are three basic methods used to embroider with beads,   

Sew individual beads directly on to the fabric

Several beads can be run through before running through the backing.

Or a line of threaded beads can be laid upon a fabric and secured with couching stitches