Fun & grand kids loved it. It can be expensive: choose carefully. Only bead shop in town. Good one in Truro
Downes
Place rating: 5 Brighton, United Kingdom
A Little Gem! I found a great selection of beads and buttons and felt very inspired to make all kinds of lovely pieces of jewellery. Really helpful and friendly staff too.
Weight
Place rating: 5 Exeter, United Kingdom
A brilliant shop selling every kind of bead you can imagine. They also sell unique premade jewellery and the staff are happy to give you advice on how many you’ll need/what goes best with what etc. As another reviewer has stated, although the cost of one bead can appear cheap, watch how many you put in your basket as it’s all too easy to walk out of there having spent £20 on beads alone.
Badhan
Place rating: 4 Exeter, United Kingdom
This is such a cute little arty shop! Right by the trendy Real McCoy vintage clothes shop, you can pop in here and be confronted by box after box of beads, sequins, buttons, wire and cotton, for all sorts of crafty projects, but mainly geared towards jewellery-making. On the downside, although the little beads might look enticing, at, say 20p each, they do soon add up, and bead-necklace making turns into a very expensive hobby very quickly! The same products could probably be bought cheaper in bulk online.
Jasmin
Place rating: 4 Exeter, United Kingdom
Situated in funky Fore Street, Bunyip caters for the artsy craftsy amongst us who fancy ourselves as costume jewellery makers. The shop sells an attractive and difficult to resist range of beads and buttons, as well as threads, wires and findings needed to realise your creative masterpiece. Staff are helpful and will advise on technique and help you choose.