"We bring the World to You!"
Global Beads Staff!
Global Beads is located in the newly renovated downtown Mountain View on Castro Street. We moved to Mountain View in 1992 and grew from 250 sq. ft to 1800 sq. feet and now we are in 5000 sq feet! We have over 50,000 types of beads and more than 250 pieces of authentic African Art, beaded Indian tapestries, world music, home decor, clothing you just "gotta" have and much more. We also carry an assortment of beautiful gifts and novelties from around the world. Our collection of beads and gifts will excite, entice and stimulate the minds of the novice beader, the designer and the savvy collector. We are a "low-tech - high touch" store.
We carry a vast selection of beads from your basic blue round to the hard to find Dzi beads. Specializing in exotic beads and unique focal pieces from: Indonesia, India, Asia, Africa, Philippines, and more!
We receive new inventory 3 to 4 days a week, so you'll see something new every time you come in. If you want us to order something special for you, just let us know.
We offer beginner to advanced classes. See Class Schedule. One-on-one or group classes or parties available upon request for information call 650/967-7556.
Come in on your birthday and receive a 20% discount on your purchase (not valid on books, classes,labor, clearance or sale items).
We perform on site repairs: re-stringing or knotting, wirework and custom designing.
Hours - we are open 7days a week..- go to hours. We offer extended holiday hours.
Testimonials:
Editorial Review – by Pamela Russell
Just Bead It
This wildly popular bead craft store runs in a very eclectic vein. It
specializes in exotic beads and unique focal pieces from Indonesia, India,
Asia, Czechoslovakia, the Philippines and elsewhere. Strands of freshwater
pearls glow in many shades of white, black, pink, blue, brown and green.
And beads of every size, color and shape imaginable--in glass, crystal,
semi-precious and precious stone, wood and metal--are sorted by type and
sectioned out in easy-to-cruise aisles. African and Indonesian art and
textiles are scattered around the store, as well as fun fad goods.
Personal Art
Staff members will re-string and hand-knot for you at $2 per inch for
a classic look. However, if you'd rather do it yourself, how-to books
are located in the back. So, even if you're among the aesthetically challenged,
you too can enjoy the thrill of making and wearing your own art.
Citysearch.
The
Downtown Shopper: Gifts from Downtown
By Julie Lovins
Global Beads, 345 Castro, is well-known for much besides what must be the area's best collection of beads: most notably an international array of decorative objects, clothing and accessories.
STREET
DATE
Castro Street
Shirley-Anne Owden
Thursday,
February 9, 2006
They thought he was
crazy when Crisanto Castro designed a 60-foot-wide street in Mountain
View in the 1860s. After all, cars weren't even invented yet. Today, his
critics would be impressed to see diners at umbrella tables, shoppers
stroll expansive sidewalks and two lanes of traffic — all on that
same street, which today boasts more than 50 restaurants with a dozen
cuisines ranging from Thai to Turkish. Take your feet down historic Castro
Street for the food, but save some time for exploring.
Global Beads: 345 Castro St.: More beads than you could string together in a lifetime (50,000 types) are sold in this huge (5,000-square-foot) space, which also offers an impressive selection of masks, clothing and gifts from around the world. Bead classes abound, too.
Owner: Kathleen McCabe on her last trip to Indonesia.
My latest trip to Bali - Jul 2002