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Information About Seed Beeds


Approximate beads per hank - Seeds
10/0 3,128 beads
11/0 4,116 beads
12/0 4,602 beads
13/0 5,133 beads

When it comes to tubes, it works a little differently.
Japanese seed beads are always going to be sold in a tube, they are never strung, only czech seed beads are sold in that manner.

Size 11 seed bead: in a 6 inch tube = 2000 beads = 20 grams
Size 11 seed bead: in a 3 inch tube = little over a 1000 = 7.5 grams
Double the size, get twice as much and save a little.

Size 14 seed bead: in a 6 inch tube = 5150
Size 14 seed bead: in a 3 inch tube = 2575

Size 8 seed bead: in a 6 inch tube = 960
Size 8 seed bead: in a 3 inch tube = 440

Size 11/10 Triangle seed bead: in a 6 inch tube = 2000
Size 11/10 Triangle seed bead: in a 3 inch tube = 1000

3mm bugles: in a 6 inch tube = 1770
5mm bugles: in a 6 inch tube = 770
9mm bugles: in a 6 inch tube = 500
12mm bugles: in 6 inch tube = 250

(These approximations represent both the amount of czech and japanese seed bead count when packaged in a 6 or 3 inch tube)
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