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Japanese bead patterns
Miyuki Delica bracelets after famous Hokusai and Hiroshige prints and traditional Japanese motifs: foaming waves, a red Mount Fuji, plum blossoms, a bridge in the rain, seigaiha fans and cranes. Every pattern lists its color codes and bead counts and comes with a printable PDF.
Free Japanese patterns7
7 patterns. Open one, change its colors, lengthen it to fit your wrist or download it as a PDF.
Japanese print color palette
The Miyuki Delica 11/0 colors in these patterns: Prussian blue and indigo, paper cream, Fuji red and ink black. Click a color to see similar colors and its TOHO matches.
Ideas with Japanese motifs
Draw your own motif
Draw your own wave, flower or kanji on a blank peyote strip; BeadDot handles the offset columns.
Learn to read peyote
These bracelets are even-count peyote: counting the zigzag rows and stringing the first two, step by step.
Find a print’s colors
Pick the closest Miyuki Delica colors from a photo of your favorite ukiyo-e print.
Turn a print into a loom pattern
Upload a photo of a print and BeadDot turns it into a loom pattern in Delica colors.
Frequently asked questions
Which prints are there?
From Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa and Red Fuji; from Hiroshige, Plum Garden in Kameido and Sudden Shower; plus the seigaiha wave pattern, cranes and a koi loom bracelet.
What is seigaiha?
A traditional Japanese wave pattern of overlapping half circles, standing for the endless sea and calm. It works beautifully as a repeating peyote band.
What do I need for the peyote series?
Miyuki Delica 11/0 beads, a thin beading needle and beading thread; no loom needed. The bracelets are 8 rows wide and about 18 cm (7 in) long.
Are these patterns free?
Yes. Open any pattern in BeadDot to edit it, or download the free PDF with the lettered chart, the materials list and the word chart.
More collections
Similar themes and the rest of the series, each with its own color palette.
Van Gogh bead patterns
Miyuki Delica bracelets after Van Gogh’s best-loved paintings: swirling night skies, sunflowers, almond branches, irises and wheat fields.
Van Gogh 6-row peyote bracelets
Six Van Gogh paintings as slim 6-row Miyuki Delica peyote bracelets: the swirl of Starry Night, sunflowers, almond branches, irises, the wheat field and the lights on the Rhône.
Van Gogh brick stitch pins
Six Van Gogh paintings as mini paintings to wear on a lapel: Starry Night, Sunflowers, Almond Blossom, Café Terrace at Night, Wheatfield with Crows and Irises.
Klimt bead patterns
Miyuki Delica bracelets after the Tree of Life, The Kiss, Adele’s golden motifs and Klimt’s garden paintings.