About Rings & Things
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Our Goals
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Rings & Things' main focus is supplying professional craftspeople with the wholesale beads and jewelry supplies needed to turn craft into wearable art jewelry. We'll be glad to try to explain how to use any findings, or to suggest ways to put together a particular product. Call us toll-free at 1 (800) 366-2156 in the USA and Canada, or visit our Forum for jewelry-making advice.
When you are in business, it is important to shop around for the best price, but you also want to make sure that you are getting the best quality for your dollar.
At Rings & Things, we want to be your jewelry component source for decades, not just one or two orders. We strive to provide you with the quality goods and information you need, to turn your creative ideas into functional art. We want your customers to keep coming back to you, not because of defective components, but because your creativity and craftsmanship, combined with our high quality jewelry components, create pieces that your customers and gift recipients can treasure for years.
We invite you to peruse our Web site, try our jewelry supplies and call us at 1-800-366-2156 if you have any questions about quality, or how to use a particular product.
If you are in Eastern Washington or North Idaho, visit our wholesale showroom. It's bursting at the seams with one-of-a-kind trade beads, gemstone bead strands and other unique jewelry-making supplies that don't fit in our catalog. We're just east of downtown Spokane, Washington (the state, not the capitol), just 10 blocks from I-90. (See our map for directions.)
Showroom visitors, be sure to bring your tax or resale ID.
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Our History
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In 1972, Ring's & Things' owner Russ Nobbs opened a tiny retail jewelry store in Spokane, Washington, after several years selling handmade gold-wire name pins and beady earrings at state fairs around the Pacific Northwest. The original Rings & Things shop was situated in an old downtown building that had been renovated as a mall run by artists, musicians, crafters and restauranteurs. The original store's filigree and bead earrings were soon joined by handcrafted sterling silver jewelry, followed by beads ... and a whole lot more.
A few years later, we added a mail-order print catalog to our operations. When the arts mall was slated to be torn down to build a bank, all branches of Rings & Things – our fine-crafts gallery "The Jeweler's Bench," our retail bead store and our wholesale division – moved to a nearby skywalk level mall.
We ran the retail store and mail-order business simultaneously for several years. But, in 2000, the retail store closed, freeing up resources for our wholesale mail-order business to expand — Rings & Things was becoming a wholesale resource for the nation, and the world! In 2005, having long outgrown our mail-order digs on the 9th floor of a downtown department-store building, we bought our own warehouse (view pictures of the 2005 move here). In our new home we're still growing, thanks to you!
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