At Brightlings Beads we promise to bring you a wide spectrum of beads in various shapes, colors and mediums, as well as a variety of jewelry-making accessories, supplies and tools. We are always in search of high-quality jewelry components for our customers. Whether you're a reseller, an experienced artisan, a casual craftsperson, or a novice thinking about a project just for fun, our ever-growing inventory should have just what you need.

We hope you'll enjoy browsing through our selection of glass beads. We are always expanding the extremely popular Swarovski crystal bead and pendant lines, as well as our Czech bead line which includes fire polished, lampworked handmade, and pressed beads. Designer art glass made in the USA is extraordinarily stunning, and furnace glass beads from China are of excellent quality. Beads from India offer different textures and unique mixes to complement your designs. The glass seed beads we carry, made in Japan, are of superior quality.Seed beads are commonly made from manufactured glass, but often seen in both metal and plastic. Seed beads are used for stringing jewelry, bead weaving, knitting, and crochet. They are often used as accent beads within a jewelry design. They come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, colors, and finishes. The size is indicated by an ◦ symbol, sometimes written as /0, the larger the number the smaller the size of bead.

Our silver beads come form all corners of the earth. We’ve spent a lot of time sourcing only the highest quality sterling silver beads and jewelry components. The beautiful Bali-style beads are imported from Bali, Turkey and India.

Along with our sterling silver items, our gemstone beads have been gathered from around the world. Most of our freshwater pearls are imported from Japan and China where creating freshwater pearls within mussels inhabiting freshwater lakes and rivers has become very big business. We have an amazing collection of sterling silver charms, which is constantly being expanded, as is our assortment of sterling silver enameled charms and pewter charms. Most of these are made right here in the USA, as are our pewter components and gold-filled items.