Brick stitch bead paper
Offset bead rows laid out for brick stitch, where each bead sits in the gap between the two above it — like courses of brickwork.
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Brick and peyote are the same lattice, turned
Brick stitch and peyote produce an identical offset bead arrangement; the difference is the direction you work and how the thread passes. A chart can often serve either, rotated ninety degrees. What neither can use is a square grid, which is what most free bead chart paper offers.
Increases and decreases sit differently
Because rows are offset, adding a bead at the end of a brick stitch row extends it by half a bead position rather than a whole one. Charts that ignore this produce shapes with ragged edges when beaded. Working on correctly offset paper makes the increase and decrease positions visually obvious before you commit thread to it.
Bead proportion
Cylinder beads such as Delicas are quite regular and sit around 0.8 of their width in height. Round seed beads are less consistent and closer to 0.9. If your beaded piece comes out shorter or longer than the chart implied, adjust the gauge and redraw — it is almost always the proportion rather than your tension.
Printing it accurately
This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100% — not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.