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 ...

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 ...