The handmade production of Christmas tree decorations from blown glass beads is a traditional practice connected with glass production in North Bohemia, where blown glass beads have been produced ...

The handmade production of blown glass beads into Christmas tree decorations in Poniklá, Czech Republic, earned the craft a place on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage last year. But ...

A newly discovered treasure trove of more than 10,000 colorful glass beads, as well as evidence of glassmaking tools, suggests that an ancient city in southwestern Nigeria was one of the first places ...

Archaeologists excavating Frattesina found thousands of ancient glass artifacts near a Bronze Age furnace used for glassmaking, photos show. Photo from Paolo Bellintani Brushing away the dirt covering ...

Much before the blow-pipe invention in the West, a technological leap in glass technology was achieved in the Indian subcontinent which transformed glass bead production, according to Alok Kumar ...

PALANI: Archaeologists have reportedly unearthed a glass bead production unit belonging to the Sangam period, near Palani, recently. This site is believed to be the first glassware-making unit of ...

Abidemi Babatunde Babalola is the Smuts Research Fellow at the Center of African Studies, University of Cambridge. He receives funding from the Corning Museum of Glass, Rice University, Harvard ...