Thrift stores are full of stunning vintage items just waiting to join your home decor. One glass-blown item is a must-buy if ...

Poniklá (Czech Republic) (AFP) – Sparkling with colourful glitter, the small glassware shop in the Czech mountains lights up a grim, foggy day, as Christmas shoppers stream in to the constant chime of ...

The traditional method of producing the beads by heating and blowing air into delicate glass tubes has been practiced in the village of Ponikla since the 1870s according to Barbora Kulhava, a co-owner ...

A small family business in the Czech Republic is the last place where traditional Christmas decorations from blown glass beads are still made. Crafting Christmas decorations using hollow glass beads ...

Inside her cozy rural St. Ansgar home on a blustery cold winter night, Meagan Steinberg is hard at work. Inspecting a variety of hand-blown glass beads, she contemplates vibrant color combinations, ...

PONIKLA, Czech Republic—A small family business in a mountainous village in northern Czech Republic says it’s the last place in the world where traditional Christmas decorations from blown glass beads ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Rows of beads, colors representing every shade in the rainbow, line the walls of the Old Bozeman ...

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 ...

They come to buy blown-glass beaded decorations including stars, angels, snowmen, Santa Clauses or cribs made by a small company in Ponikla, a village in the northern Czech Republic. The "handmade ...