International Beading Week - Rainbow of Colours

International Beading Week is just around the corner (26th July – 3rd August 2025). It is a celebration of beading and a lovely way to hopefully encourage a few more people into this wonderful craft. There’s further information about IBW on the Bead Workers Guild website including an international project you can get involved with and some IBW inspired free projects and resources.

One of the projects is a year long project creating a continuous piece of beadwork using the colours from the IBW logo. You can find our more information about it here.

We thought we’d help you with your International Beading Week – Rainbow of Colours, by speed up your shopping! We’ve created a list of colours in some of our popular bead ranges that fit the theme. So that you can get straight into the beading. These are just our suggestions, there’s plenty of other options too. The colours listed in the chart below are also linked to the product.

Rainbow of Colours

Colour	4mm Preciosa Bicone	Size 11 Seed Bead	Size 11 Delica Bead
1 Dark Red	Siam	Silver Lined Red	DB602 – Silver Lined Red
2 Red	Light Siam	Opaque Red	DB723 Opaque Dark Cranberry
3 Orange	Topaz	Opaque Orange	DB722 Opaque Bright Orange
4 Yellow	Citrine	Opaque Yellow	DB1132 Opaque Canary Yellow
5 Pale Green	Chrysolite	White Lined Green	DB046 Silver Lined Light Green
6 Bright Green	Peridot	Silver Lined Green	DB724 Opaque Pea Green
7 Deep Green	Emerald	Opaque Green	DB605 Silver Lined Emerald
8 Bright Blue	Aquamarine	Opaque Sky Blue	DB2130 Opaque Underwater Blue
9 Deep Blue	Capri Blue	Opaque Blue	DB047 Silver Lined Dark Sapphire
10 Indigo	Deep Tanzanite	Permalux Purple	DB2139 Duracoat Opaque Dark Orchid
11 Purple	Amethyst	Silver Lined Purple	DB1345 Silver Lined Bright Violet
12 Pink	Fuchsia	Permalux Mulberry	DB1340 Silver Lined Fuchsia

We hope you find this post helpful and find some wonderful beading inspiration during International Beading week.

Happy Beading
Steph 🙂