Repairs & Restringing

The Little Bead Shop Offers a full jewellery restringing and repair service. Ideally pearls and beads should be re-strung every few years depending on the amount of wear.  We can restring all kinds of beaded jewellery on professional beading wire as well as re-knot pearls on silk giving your jewellery a new lease of life. Some repairs are very simple and can be carried out instantly, others - like pearl knotting, take longer and need to be left. Repairs generally take around two weeks.

Prices for repairs are confirmed after assessing the piece, but as a rough guide you can expect to pay around £7.00 for beads to be restrung on professional beading wire and from £20.00 for a full knotted restring. On the spot repairs often cost only the price of your replacement parts.

Should your piece of jewellery be beyond repair then it will almost certainly be possible to use it components in a complete redesign. Just pop into The Little Bead Shop to see whats possible!

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Welcome to our news!

Here you will find up to date news of whats going on at here The Little Bead Shop & Art Clay Scotland. Courses, Guest Artists, Events, Publications, Open Studios, even parties - its all here! Simply hold your cursor over the scrolling text to slow it down.

New Silver Metal Clay Courses

***NEW COURSE DATES ADDED TO THE SILVER METAL CLAY COURSE PAGE - Including our popular Silver Fingerprint Jewellery course teaching you how to make your very own precious charms ****** Find out more here.


Farewell to Helen!!!

Our wonderful star Helen Chalmers has left the Little Bead Shop to immerse herself in her final year studying Jewellery Design at Art College. Helen was a huge part of our team and we are sad to see her go....Thanks for all your hard work over the years Helen!! Thankfully Helen will still come back occasionally to teach for us. Watch this space for details of Helen's classes..


New Level 1 Certification Course

This October we are, once again, running the highly regarded Art Clay Silver Level 1 Certification Course. If you are interested in teaching Art Clay Silver, or are simply looking for a thorough training in the essential techniques in this fantastic material, then this course is for you. Upon successful completion you'll receive a Certificate as well as a 20% discount on your Art Clay from us. Find out more on our Art Clay Course pagehere.


Silver Fingerprint Jewellery - Express Drop in Day

Our Express Saturday Drop in Day for Silver Fingerprint Charms is proving to be really popular!. Between the hours of 2:00 - 5:00 on Saturdays you can simply "drop in" to have your own, a child's or loved ones fingerprint immortalised in pure Silver. Come along early and we'll even have your jewellery ready for you by tea time!!!! Pure Silver Fingerprint Jewellery makes an ideal gift for anyone. Find out more here