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2. Bohemian glass - Wikipedia

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   One of the glass items for which the Czech nation is still well known is the production of "druk" beads. Druks are small (3mm-18mm) round glass beads with small threading holes produced in a wide variety of colors and finishes and used mainly as spacers among beaded jewellery makers. [6]

3. Seed bead - Wikipedia

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   Two principal techniques are used to produce seed beads: the wound method and the drawn method. The wound method is the more-traditional technique, is more time-consuming, and is no longer used in modern bead production: in this technique, a chunk of glass known in glassmaking as a gather and composed mainly of silica is heated on an iron bar until molten.

4. Glass bead making - Wikipedia

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   Lampworked dichroic glass bead showing thin film application Furnace glass beads. A variant of the wound glass bead making technique, and a labor-intensive one, is what is traditionally called lampworking. In the Venetian industry, where very large quantities of beads were produced in the 19th century for the African trade, the core of a ...

5. Beadwork - Wikipedia

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   By 1291, artists in Murano, Italy had begun production of intricate glass Murano beads inspired by Venetian glassware. With the advent of lampwork glass, Europeans started producing seed beads for embroidery, crochet, and other, mostly off-loom techniques. [7] Czech seed beads are among the most popular contemporary bead styles.

6. Preciosa (corporation) - Wikipedia

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   During the Cold War, Preciosa closely collaborated with the Communist regime.From the 1960s to the 1980s, Preciosa was an integral part of Věznice Minkovice [], a labor camp set up by the Communist government in 1958, now known as one of the most brutal Communist prison camps in Czechoslovakia; it was even nicknamed "The Red Hell" or "Minkau" (after the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau) by ...

7. Alena Matejka - Wikipedia

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   Czech & British Contemporary Glass Sculpture, The Studio Glass Gallery, London, UK, 1998; Serenade of the Seas, The Art Collection, Norway, 1999; Big kiln is a sure-fire success, Sunderland Echo, 7 February 2004, 2; Global Art Glass Triennial, Borgholm Slottet, Sweden, (ISBN 91-631-7192-9)