Jewel School host and jewelry designer, Susan Thomas, was honored as a “Top 5 Trendsetter” at the annual Interweave Bead and Jewelry Maker Festival in Lancaster, PA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 08, 2023 ...
LITTLE ROCK — Tom and Sage Holland are passionate not only about bead making but the history that comes with it. "In a time of such fast change I see beads as an important stabilizing connection to ...
Lawmakers and regulators are working to ban water beads as toys for children following reports of serious injuries and a 10-month-old baby who died after swallowing them. Water beads are gel balls ...
Beads are spilling across the country, into jewelry hobbyists' dens, artists' studios and craft store shelves. Jewelry artists, better known as beaders, are grabbing them up and creating works of art ...
Nestled in the upper corner of her studio with sunlight shining on the collection of glass beads, jewelry designer Jean West Evans is busy stringing an immense set of amethysts. Sparkling Swavorski ...
THREE RIVERS AREA — Down miles of bumpy, dirt roads, hidden beyond the trees in Meadowcreek near Fox, is Tom and Sage Holland’s studio, where they produce lamp-wound glass beads. The Hollands are ...
Powder glass bead makers at Otrokper in the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region have appealed for loans, modern tools and a factory that would remove the arduous methods, make them ...