Someone in China put fuse bead grids on cups and plates. This is genius
These popped up on my feed and I had to share them here.
The cup has a tiny square grid built into the surface. You paint it one cell at a time, just like following a fuse bead pattern. You don't even have to worry about choosing the wrong color. If you paint the wrong square, you can blot the pigment off with paper and try again. They even have pattern sheets.
Cup, in progress and finished:
The plate version is a bit more DIY. They lay a piece of grid mesh over a plain ceramic plate, then use the squares as a guide. It looks so obvious once you see it, but I never would have thought of it.
Plate, before and after:
I work on BeadsHub (https://www.beadshub.net/), so I already spend an embarrassing amount of time staring at colored grids. The fact that the "pegboard" can just be the cup or plate itself broke my brain a little.
Not my work. Screenshots are from videos by 毒舌林火火 and 干饭小魔女鸣酱 on Xiaohongshu.
Would you try this? What pattern would you put on a mug?
Posted Aug 4, 2026, 8:42 AM UTC