Disclaimer

A chart from this site is a starting point. Check it against real beads before you buy in quantity.

Where the bead colours come from

This is the most important thing on this page. Patterns are matched to Miyuki’s Delica 11/0 cylinder beads. The Delica numbers are taken from Miyuki’s own bead directory. Miyuki numbers Delica colours rather than naming them, so the description beside each number (“Opaque Red”) is that bead’s glass, finish and colour family as Miyuki lists them; order by the number. Miyuki does not publish colour values, so the colour each bead shows on screen is read from Miyuki’s own photo of those beads. It is close, but it is a photo, not a measurement. Mixes and see-through beads (clear glass with no lining or metal coat) are not offered, because in woven work they show the thread behind them.

Colour is approximate

Colour matching is done in CIELAB using CIEDE2000, which is about as close to how the eye judges colour difference as arithmetic gets — but it is still arithmetic. Your monitor is not calibrated to ours. Beads are glossy, matte, lined, silver-lined or transparent, and finish changes how a colour reads far more than a small shift in hue does. Dye and glass lots vary between batches of the same product. Order a sample before committing to a large piece.

Sizes and counts are estimates

Finished measurements assume a nominal bead size and perfectly even tension. Real weaving is neither. Bead counts are exact for the chart as drawn, but they do not include the beads you will cull for being misshapen, which in seed beading is never none. Buy a margin.

No affiliation

PicToBead is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Miyuki, Toho and other seed bead manufacturers. Delica is Miyuki’s name, and its Delica numbers appear only to say which beads to buy.

Your own work

You are responsible for having the right to use any image you convert. Turning someone else’s photograph or artwork into a bead pattern does not make it yours, and selling the result may infringe their rights.

Last updated October 2026.