enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Seed bead - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_bead

   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.

3. Preciosa (corporation) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preciosa_(corporation)

   In 2005, Glass closures began being produced in Desna. [3] In 2009, the Jablonex Group divisions Glass and Beads joined with Preciosa Group to form a new company: Preciosa Ornela Inc. Nowadays, Preciosa Group consists of the following companies: Preciosa Inc., Preciosa–Chandeliers Inc., Preciosa Figurines Ltd. and Preciosa Ornela Inc.

4. Glass bead making - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_bead_making

   Also in Africa, Kiffa beads are made in Mauritania, historically by women, using powdered glass that the bead maker usually grinds from commercially available glass seed beads and recycled glass. Molded ground glass, if painted into the mold, is called pate de verre, and the technique can be used to make beads, though pendants and cabochons are ...

5. Kiffa beads - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiffa_beads

   Many of the small spherical or oblate-shaped beads were hair ornaments or worn in necklaces in various combinations with other glass and stone beads and were made by decorating a red, blue or white preformed glass bead "core". Glass slurry decorations were applied to moulded 19th century beads possibly of Czech origin. Smaller, cigar shaped or ...

6. Murano beads - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano_beads

   Millefiori beads from Murano. Murano beads are intricate glass beads influenced by Venetian glass artists. Since 1291, Murano glassmakers have refined technologies for producing beads and glasswork such as crystalline glass, enamelled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold (), multicolored glass (millefiori), milk glass (lattimo) and imitation gemstones made of glass.

7. Bohemian glass - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_glass

   Bohemian glass (Czech: české sklo), also referred to as Bohemia crystal (český křišťál), is glass produced in the regions of Bohemia and Silesia, now parts of the Czech Republic. It has a centuries long history of being internationally recognised for its high quality, craftsmanship, beauty and often innovative designs.