Inspiration

Welcome to our hive of inspiration, learning, creativity and fun.

Free Tutorials

Join Donna and the Riverside Beads Team with a range of tutorials to enhance your beading techniques.

Eight Braid Kumihimo

Sparkle Spacer Angel

Prumihimo Tutorial with Pru McRae

Beaded Bag Charms

Join Workshops

We offer a wide range of craft and beading workshops to learn a new creative skill.

Our workshops are held in our classroom located at the back of our shop.

Click here to view our monthly calendars and FAQ’s. We look forward to welcoming you on a workshop soon.

Craft Workshops

Over at Riverside Crafts we host crafting workshops throughout the year with card making, needle felting and many more.

Riverside Bead Box

Our monthly subscription package offers you a great chance to gain new inspiration every month through a variety of beading techniques and projects. Our boxes come with descriptive and illustrated step by step instructions which help you to apply your new skills to different projects, creating truly unique pieces.

Each month our members receive an in depth tutorial and newsletter of how to make the most of the box.

We would love to have you as a member and help inspire you on your beading journey.

Donna x

Testimonials

Extensive range of jewellery making equipment. Lovely, friendly and helpful staff. Have run some great workshops in the past which I enjoyed.

Pam

We had a lovely crafternoon session with Donna running a kumihimo workshop for my sister’s hen do this weekend. I’d thoroughly recommend.

Ellie

Just been part of a hair vine and tiara workshop, lots of fun and fab instruction.

Michelle

Brilliant shop, so well stocked with craft supplies and beading goodies. I did a super workshop on silver art clay which was taught by Donna, it was excellent; I learnt a lot and I'm really pleased with the piece that I made.

Caroline