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 ...

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In some craft circles, residents of Glendale, Arizona, are envied beyond belief and it takes only one visit to the Bead Museum to understand why. These beads aren’t just for crafters (although the ...

Neckpiece with colored glass beads Coseteng buys the beads herself “wherever and whenever” she travels. It could be a market stall in northern Luzon or in Africa, Bolivia, China and Indonesia. She ...

The kaleidoscope was first invented back in the early 1800s, with the curio known for showing compelling psychedelic patterns as light passes through colored glass and is reflected by mirrors in a ...

Today, glass is ordinary, on-the-kitchen-shelf stuff. But early in its history, glass was bling for kings. Thousands of years ago, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt surrounded themselves with the stuff, ...