Looking for a bead store

[redbird]

While doing stuff with beads after elisem left yesterday, I realized that Beads of the Month, while informative and delightful, doesn't leave me with lots of things that want to go together into pairs of earrings. Also, the few beads I picked up at Toho Shoji a while ago don't go well with what I got from Elise.

So, I want more beads. (Also more French hook style findings, but that should be easier.) Do any of you know good bead stores in New York City? Manhattan (especially downtown or the West Side), the West Bronx, or downtown Brooklyn by preference--basically, reachable easily starting in Upstate Manhattan, meaning by the A, 1, or a small selection of buses.

Google finds me lots of listings for bead stores in New York, and I have no quick way of telling the good from the bad.

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[treadpath.livejournal.com]

You could try Metalliferous (34 W 46th Street). They have a bead room and practically every finding one could imagine.

I've always found Toho Shoji to be great for Swarovski crystal and seed beads, but not too much else. There are some other bead stores near there, but I don't have exact addresses. Sorry about that... mostly they were places I'd duck into after work or on my lunch break when I worked on 35th street. Chances are, knowing that neighborhood, they're probably gone by now anyway. :(

The Rio Grande catalog is also good, but they're annoying about making one shell out for it (I think it's $10 or something)

I just found this site listing bead store in NY and the page has nearly the same color background as your lj page. Is it a sign? :)

http://www.guidetobeadwork.com/localstores/states/NY.zip.html