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 ...

The handmade production of Christmas tree decorations from blown glass beads earned a place on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage last year. Image: Michal Cizek / AFP Sparkling with ...

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 ...

If you own early 20th century jewelry, chances are that you may have some pieces that were made in Czechoslovakia (or Bohemia, the old name for the area that became today’s Czech Republic). For ...

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 ...