Featured Bead

“Metal core”? Don’t worry. No electric guitars here…I’m just talking about a pretty little kind of charm bead 🙂

For charm lovers, it’s a whole Pandora’s box of silver lining (or silver-plated lining) !*

So many kinds to adorn your bracelets…and more:

• Go Calypso™ with Rings & Things’ house brand.
• Stay earthy with new metal-core gemstone beads.
• Investigate new styles of metal-core glass beads.

And, did you know? You can even make your own, by lining the center of your own large-hole bead with one of our sterling grommets! (A.k.a. bead spindles, bead cores, eyelets.)

Plus, you should mine our Design Gallery’s “search” feature to dig up metal-core jewelry inspirations…

Metal-core charms have captivated Russ Troll, the bead with a heart of pewter! 🙂

* Beware of competitors’ lower-quality, non-silver lined versions.

They’ve been showing up in magazines a lot…

Shimmering & delicate:

Striped mother of pearl beads are in the magazines.

What’s red, or white, and striped all over?

Are they in your jewelry yet? 🙂

4 shapes, many shades…you won’t be overlooked.

Very vogue Vintaj®…

We’ve fallen in love with Vintaj. It’s not just that this is a well-known name you can trust. It also has to do with the strikingly high quality of these “natural brass” findings. And the ingenious, carefully worked-out designs…

I just have to focus in on a big favorite of mine. (Out of dozens of Vintaj items we’ve added!) There are a number of filigree beads they make that open up like petals, and close again if you want. Imagine the different ways you could use this and similar beads:

Surf the link at the top of this article to be treated to more great brass than a marching band.

And by the way, we’re adding exclusive designs using Vintaj items in our Design Gallery, so a search there will be rewarding too.

Have a Vintaj favorite? Let us know!