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Puget Sound Bead Festival
Hotel Murano Bicentennial Pavilion
1320 Broadway Avenue
Tacoma, WA, United States 98402
The largest national bead show on the West coast! Our show philosophies are to deliver a bead show unlike any other, with the highest quality vendors, classes & show services for all involved. Come find out for yourself - July 10th-12th 2009!
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»»» Washington (2)The Puget Sound Bead Festival began in 1995 and is owned and operated by Viki & Mark Lareau of The Bead Factory Incorporated in Tacoma, Washington. Our show has moved venues four times to accommodate our ever growing list of vendors, class selections and attendance.
Now in its fourteenth year with over 100 vendor booths, 125 classes and expected attendance this year at around 10,000, the PSBF is the largest national bead show on the west coast.
PSBF draws all levels of beaders from all over the country, even from Canada and Japan! Each year as the show grows and our class selection increases, so does our attendance and the show's national appeal.
Thirteen years of attendance has taught us a lot about our attendees. PSBF attendees are almost 99% women, mostly professional, well educated women with a household income above $70,000. Beading is their therapy, it's what they turn to for relaxation, and as a creative outlet. Also fashion driven, these women crave higher quality materials than can be found in a local craft store. In our bead store, The Bead Factory, we have built our total business model on the concept of catering to this contemporary beader. Offering her classes in all the latest jewelry techniques and showing her how she can make fashionable jewelry herself feeds her need to be createive and thrive in a social setting.
PSBF is a spin off of that concept in a trade show setting. Our purpose is to bring all those high quality bead merchants and national bead instructors to the Pacific Northwest. Each year we try to increase the quality of the show by adding features and services to enhance the attendees experience.
But regardless of how big we grow, our show philosophies are the same: to deliver a bead show unlike any other, with the highest quality vendors, classes & show services for the vendor, teachers, students and attendees. No matter how one is involved with our show you are treated like family to create an atmosphere that is inspiring, creative, and fun!
We hope that this is your experience. Anything we can be of help with, directions, class selection, travel info…please don’t hesitate to call me or one of our show's coordinators.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Happy Beading!
Viki Lareau ~ Show Producer
Christine Briggs, Melissa Lovejoy, Carrie Hamm ~ Show CoordinatorsHours of work
Workshops begin Thursday, July 9th 9:00am
Show Hours:
Student Preview Thursday, July 9th 5:00-8:00pm
Open to the public:
Friday, July 10th 10am-6pm
Saturday, July 11th 10am-6pm
Sunday, July 12th 11am-5pm
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