I intend to add more information as time allows!
Sveva's Hands on Glass Beads handout
Other very useful site for information on Techniques are:
The following links are
helpful for bead research:
The Center for Bead Research
(http://www.thebeadsite.com/cbr-dex.html)
5th c.Anglo Saxon Beads and a modern replica (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MelanieWilson/beads.htm)
Crafts in
Lothene, 11th Century, Scotland, medieval re-enactment
(http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/crafts4.html)
Other types of glass
work may be found at:
A Resource of Glass
(http://www.cmog.org/Education/edglass.htm)
A variety of other
(and some of the same) links and information can also be found at the webpage for the COMPAGNIA DEI MAESTRI DEL VETRO (the
Kingdom of Atlantia's Glass-workers Guild) at http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/guilds/cmv/index.htm
Some Suppliers of Glass
and Equipment:
Frantz Bead Company
E. 1222 Sunset Hill Rd.
Shelton, Wa. 98584
ph: (360)-426-6712
fax: (360)-427-5866
Email [email protected]
http://www.olywa.net/frantzbead/