Magazine Directory

Here are some of the most popular print magazines for jewelry artisans and crafters.

Jewelry Making and Beading Magazines

Art Jewelry - A bimonthly magazine with a broad range of jewelry making projects from beginning beading to advanced metalwork.

Bead & Button - A bimonthly magazine focusing on more-intricate beadwork jewelry projects, but also covering some beginning-level techniques. The primary focus of the magazine is now beads, although there are occasional articles featuring buttons.

Beadstyle - A bimonthly magazine featuring lots of fashionable bead jewelry projects, from beginning-level to intermediate.

Beadwork - This bimonthly magazine features primarily bead-weaving jewelry projects from beginning to advanced.

Bench Jeweler - This is a quarterly magazine for professional bench jewelers. It includes projects and covers techniques from beginning to advanced level metalwork and gemstone setting.

Colored Stone - This is a bimonthly publication focusing on trends on the gemstone industry. It provide market reports and reviews of major gem and jewelry shows around the world.

Jewelry Artist (formerly Lapidary Journal) - A monthly magazine with projects and information about jewelry making on all levels, plus extra focus on gemstones and gemstone cutting.

Jewelry Crafts - A bimonthly, general-topic jewelry making publication that was popular in the 1990s, but received some poor reviews in the early 2000s.

Modern Jeweler - This magazine publishes eleven issues per year. Its target audience is professional jewelers who work full-time on high-end designs. It covers marketing strategies as well as fashion trends and new techniques.

Rock & Gem - This is a monthly publication for rock collectors, rock and gem cutters, and gemstone-jewelry makers.

Simply Beads - This bimonthly magazine features a wide array of beading projects, from jewelry to home decor.

Step By Step Beads - This bimonthly publication offers numerous projects in all aspect of bead jewelry making, from beginning level to advanced.

Step By Step Wire Jewelry - This quarterly magazine features wire jewelry projects from beginning level to advanced.

Craft Magazines

American Craft - A bimonthly publication focusing on historical and contemporary crafts in a wide variety of genre. Includes artist profiles, museum and gallery exhibit directories, and exhibition reviews.

American Style - A bimonthly publication for art and craft collectors showcasing "contemporary fine craft, functional art and hand crafted furniture." Includes tours of collectors homes, artist profiles, and art-focused travel articles.

Belle Armoire - A bimonthly publication featuring artistic handmade apparel and wearable art creations.

Craft: Transforming Traditional Crafts - A quarterly magazine offering projects for younger, contemporary crafters.

Metalsmith - This magazine publishes five issues per year. Its target audience are artists who work with metal, including metal jewelry artists.

PolymerCafe - This magazine is published four times per year and focuses on creative, artistic polymer clay projects of all kinds.

The Crafts Report - A monthly business magazine for crafters and craft retailers.

Jewelry & Accessories Design and Trend Magazines

Accessories - This magazine is published ten times per year and is aimed at wholesale accessories buyers. It also covers jewelry and accessories trends.

Craftrends - This quarterly trade publication provides tips and information for craft and craft-supplies retailers.

Ornament - A quarterly publication fostering appreciation of historic and contemporary art jewelry and artistic clothing.