Specialised bead and jewellery store located in the heart of Petone, Wellington.
Since 2002, Village Beads have prided themselves on their immense range of beads and jewellery components.
Browse the thousands of beads that line the walls of our store, attend a children’s or adults jewellery class, peruse our curated collection of jewellery and accessories, or create your own jewellery in store with the help of our friendly staff!
About Us
EST. 2002
Village Beads is the brainchild of Debbie, who opened our Jackson Street store way back in February 2002. Over the years she has built up Village Beads to be a Petone icon, making it a destination point for beaders, crafters, and jewellery enthusiasts alike! Debbie is also our resident fudge maker, and whips up delicious homemade fudge in a range of flavours!
Upcoming Events
CREATE YOUR OWN JEWELLERY
CREATE YOUR OWN JEWELLERY
Come into our Petone store at any time to create your own jewellery! Choose from the thousands of beads we have available, create your design, and we can finish off all the tricky bits for you. Prices start at as little as $5. Bookings are advised for groups of four or more people.
Looking for the perfect gift?
Our gift vouchers can be used in store on anything - on our large range of scarves, hats, bags, and jewellery, our delicious homemade fudge, creating your own jewellery, or to purchase beads to take home and create things with!
CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAY WITH VILLAGE BEADS!
We have party options available for both small and large groups of all ages, from ages 5+! We provide friendly, trained staff, and all of the beads and materials. Prices start at $20 per child, and we are happy to discuss custom packages.
REPAIRS
We offer an extensive set of repair services, including but not limited to, necklace and bracelet rethreading, shortenings, adding new clasps on or swapping to magnetic clasps, gluing replacement components into settings, reknotting necklaces and bracelets, pounamu restringing, braiding, and wrappings, swapping earring hooks over, and can help you to redesign or remake your old jewellery! Please bring in your jewellery for us to have a look at, and we will be able to provide a comprehensive quote once we have assessed each piece. We can also courier your fixed pieces to you, please send us an email if you are based out of town.
JEWELLERY CLASSES!
We teach a broad range of techniques in our jewellery classes! We run specialised classes for school aged children and teens during the school holidays, and adults classes during the term time. Private group classes can be arranged on request.
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We run specialised classes for school aged children and teens during the school holidays, and adults classes during the term time. Children get to learn the foundational skills of how to design and thread their own necklaces, bracelets, suncatchers, etc, and we also teach special items like beaded animals, safety pin angel decorations, and more! Our staff help out with the tricky finishing off at the end. Bookings are essential, find out more here
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Our teens classes develop the foundational skills we teach in our kids classes further, and teach the kids how to clasp their jewellery, create earrings, and macrame braiding and knot tying too. These classes are suitable for teens aged 12+, or at our discretion if your child has experience in beading. Find out more here
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Our adults classes teach a broad range of skills, including but not limited to, designing, threading, measuring, clasping, looping earrings, knotting necklaces, tying elastic, and more! These skills can be applied when making many different things, and we can run private group sessions as well. Find out more information here
P R I V A T E F U N C T I O N S
We love running private functions for both small and large groups! Previously we have worked with a range of school groups, Girl Guides, bridal shower parties, special birthday functions, and societies of people who are looking to do something creative and fun! Please get in touch with us and describe your group’s requirements so we can help to create the perfect function space and opportunity for your individual event.
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