How to Make Peyote Stitch Bezels

Peyote stitch bezels are perfect for making beautiful focals for your jewelry-designs. This technique uses seed beads to make matching frames for your focal stones. Sometimes focals do not have stringing holes, so bezels are a great way for making it easier to add these stones to projects. Peyote stitch techniques are used to make these featured bezels and you can make different shapes to fit the stones you are using. Watch our video to learn how to make round, oval, pear-shaped, and rectangle bezels, and then take a look at our step-by-step photo tutorial and jewelry inspiration for using this technique in your projects! For this technique, you will need 11/0 cylinder seed beads (Delicas, Treasures, or Aikos), 15/0 round seed beads, beading needles, and thread.

Peyote Bezels Video Tutorial

Open-Back Peyote Bezel Step-by-Step Photo Tutorial

Our step-by-step tutorial for open-back peyote bezels features photos for every step of the technique and even a chart for how many beads to use for different sizes of Rivoli stones. Download the PDF for the chart or take a look at the info below. You can also save our pin for making peyote bezels on Pinterest as a quick reference.

Rivoli Size	Number of 11/0 Delicas/Treasures for starting circle	Add rows of Peyote Stitch to starting circle	Add rows of Peyote Stitch for front side of bezel	Add rows of Peyote Stitch for back side of bezel
18mm	46	1 row of 11/0 Delicas/Treasures	3 rows of 15/0 rounds	3 rows of 15/0 rounds
16mm	42	1 row of 11/0 Delicas/Treasures	3 rows of 15/0 rounds	3 rows of 15/0 rounds
14mm	36	1 row of 11/0 Delicas/Treasures	3 rows of 15/0 rounds	3 rows of 15/0 rounds
12mm	30	1 row of 11/0 Delicas/Treasures	3 rows of 15/0 rounds	3 rows of 15/0 rounds
10mm	26	1 row of 11/0 Delicas/Treasures	2 rows of 15/0 rounds	3 rows of 15/0 rounds
	These beads become the first two rows of the stitch	This becomes the third row

Peyote Stitch Bezels Around a Cabochon

You can also use peyote stitch techniques to make a bezel around a cabochon that's glued down to a surface. This is a popular technique for bead embroidery designs. Check out our step-by-step photo tutorial for how to make a bezel in this fashion.