Art collection
Van Gogh bead patterns
Miyuki Delica bracelets after Van Gogh’s best-loved paintings: swirling night skies, sunflowers, almond branches, irises and wheat fields. Even the short brush strokes of the paintings are worked in bead by bead. Every pattern lists its color codes and bead counts and comes with a printable PDF.
Free Van Gogh patterns7
7 patterns. Open one, change its colors, lengthen it to fit your wrist or download it as a PDF.
Van Gogh color palette
The Miyuki Delica 11/0 colors in these patterns: night blues, star yellow, moon orange and the greens of the paintings. Click a color to see similar colors and its TOHO matches.
Bead ideas from paintings
Turn a painting into a pattern
Upload a photo of a painting and BeadDot turns it into a loom pattern in Delica colors; then fine-tune the colors bead by bead.
Find a painting’s colors
Pick the closest Miyuki Delica colors from a photo of a painting and build your own Van Gogh palette.
Learn to read peyote
Most of these bracelets are even-count peyote: counting the zigzag rows and stringing the first two, step by step.
See it on the wrist
Turn the Starry Night bracelet around in the 3D preview, wrapped as it will sit on your wrist.
Frequently asked questions
Which paintings are there?
The peyote series has Starry Night, Sunflowers, Almond Blossom, Irises, Wheatfield with Crows and Starry Night over the Rhône; on the loom there is a Starry Night bracelet. Narrower 6-row versions of the same six paintings and brick stitch mini painting pins have pages of their own.
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.
Can I change the colors?
Yes. Open the pattern in your workshop and swap any color for another Delica code throughout; the materials list updates on its own.
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 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.
Japanese bead patterns
Miyuki Delica bracelets after Hokusai’s waves, a red Mount Fuji, plum blossoms and seigaiha fans.
Klimt bead patterns
Miyuki Delica bracelets after the Tree of Life, The Kiss, Adele’s golden motifs and Klimt’s garden paintings.