Disclaimer

What you are actually getting

A pattern is a grid. Each cell is one bead, each cell carries a colour code, and the sheet comes with a list of how many beads of each colour you will need. That is the product in full: a plan, on paper.

It is not beads, not a kit, not a pegboard and not a finished object. Nothing physical is shipped, because nothing physical is sold.

It is also not a promise that the result will look like your photograph. Reducing an image to a few hundred beads in around thirty colours throws away nearly everything: fine detail, gradients, texture, and faces at small sizes above all. The preview on screen is the honest answer to whether it worked, and it is free, complete, and shown before any payment.

The colour codes are approximations

The palette is built on the Hama midi range, and the codes printed on a sheet are codes from that range. The colours the site draws with are approximations of physical beads, judged by eye on a screen.

There is no exact conversion, and there cannot be one. A bead is a piece of translucent plastic that changes with the light it sits under, changes again once it has been ironed, and is photographed differently by every camera. A screen shows an emitted colour on a display that may or may not be calibrated. Treat every colour on this site as an indication of which bead is meant, never as a colour sample.

What is reliable is the code. If the sheet says a cell is a particular code, that specific bead is what is intended, and the code is what you should shop with. What is not reliable is the exact shade shown next to it.

Hama, Perler, Pyssla, Nabbi and Artkal are trademarks or product names belonging to their respective owners, and Pyssla belongs to IKEA. Other manufacturers number their colours differently and their ranges do not line up with each other. A code from this site is a Hama midi code; matching it to a Perler, Pyssla, Nabbi or Artkal bead means comparing the actual beads, and it will often be a near match rather than an exact one.

Colours get discontinued without warning

Manufacturers change their ranges. Colours are withdrawn, renumbered and reintroduced, and it happens without notice and without any announcement that reaches people outside the trade.

So there is no guarantee that a code on a sheet is still in production, still stocked by your shop, or still the same shade as the batch it was matched against. A pattern printed today can name a colour that has quietly gone.

Before spending money on beads because a pattern told you to, check the colour list against what your shop actually has and against what is already in your box. Swapping one colour for another is a normal part of this craft, and the pattern does not stop working when you do.

If you find a code on this site that is no longer available, please tell us at hallo@pixelperlen.com. That is a real fault in the product and we would like to fix it.

Bead counts

The counts on a sheet are exact for the pattern as shown. They are counted from the grid, not estimated.

They are not a shopping list with a safety margin. They do not include the beads that end up under the sofa, the ones that come out misshapen, or the ones a child works through in the first ten minutes.

Mixed bags do not hold equal quantities of each colour. A pattern needing nine hundred white beads and eleven purple ones will have you hunting for white long before purple.

Printing at true size

The PDF is laid out so that one cell on paper is exactly one bead of the size you chose, when it is printed at 100% on the paper size it was made for. That is what makes the sheet usable as a template underneath the pegboard rather than only as a picture to copy from.

Almost every printer defaults to fit to page or shrink oversized pages, and that quietly changes the scale. Check before you rely on it: set scaling to 100%, print one page, and measure a cell against a real bead. Ten seconds there saves a whole board laid out wrong.

When a pattern is too large to fit on the sheet at true size, the PDF prints it reduced and says so in a line at the bottom of the page. A reduced sheet is a picture of a pattern: read it, count from it, but do not lay beads on it.

The preview in the browser is not at true size at all. It scales to your screen, as any web page does.

Safety, which is the part that matters

Fuse beads involve a hot iron and melting plastic. That makes this an activity for adults, or one for children with an adult holding the iron. Nothing on this site changes that, and a pattern is not a supervision plan.

Follow the instructions from the maker of your beads and of your iron, not ours. We sell a sheet of paper and have no way of knowing what plastic you bought, what temperature it wants, or how your iron behaves.

Melting plastic gives off fumes. Ventilate the room, use the ironing paper that came with the beads, and do not walk away from a hot iron.

Small beads are a choking hazard for small children, and manufacturers print an age rating on the box for a reason. What we sell is a pattern, not a toy, and it carries no age rating of its own.

Nothing on this site is safety advice, and no responsibility is accepted for burns, fumes, swallowed beads or a scorched ironing board. That is not us hiding behind a paragraph: the risk belongs entirely to the physical activity, in which we take no part at all.

Copyright in the patterns and in your own work

The gallery patterns, the site, its text and its code belong to Simone Panini. Buying a download buys the licence set out in the terms, not the drawing.

A pattern you generate from your own photograph is a different matter. The photograph is yours, and we claim nothing in it or in the grid derived from it. What you are paying for is the file; what you may do with it is in the licence.

Whether a grid derived from a photograph is itself protected, and by whom, is a question without a tidy answer in any jurisdiction. We are not going to pretend otherwise, and we are certainly not going to claim rights in your work in order to fill the gap.

No warranty, and the limits of all this

The site is provided as it is. Nothing here is professional advice of any kind — not legal, not commercial, not craft teaching.

The limits on liability live in the terms and are not repeated here. Nothing in this disclaimer takes away a right you have as a consumer, and nothing in it limits liability for death, personal injury or fraud.

Contact

Questions, complaints, refund requests and takedown notices: hallo@pixelperlen.com. A person reads that address.

This disclaimer was last updated on 9 August 2026.