By the mid-1930s Czech jewelry used larger and fewer beads, often graduated in size or combined with a pendant. ... “Czechoslovakian Glass & Collectables, Book II” ...

Many of you know that I have collected Czechoslovakian glass vases and perfume bottles from the 1920s and 1930s and have written about that beautiful glass. However, the early 20th century Czechs ...

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 ...

Curator Stefanie Kohn opens up a handbag from the 1920s or 30s made with Czech glass beads at the Art of Accessories exhibit at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids.

The handmade production of blown glass beads into Christmas tree decorations in Ponikla, Czech Republic, has earned a place on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage last year ...

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.

In 1948, all of the glass factories were nationalised as the Communists took power in the former Czechoslovakia, and Horna’s son was even thrown into prison like many entrepreneurs. But the business ...