Article Title
Bohemian Glass Beadmaking: Translation and Discussion of a 1913 German Technical Article
Translator
Initial translation by Barbara Pflanz
First Page
81
ISSN
0843-5499
Last Page
94
Abstract
This report provides an English translation of a German technical article on late 19th-century and early 20th-century Bohemian glass-bead manufacturing, published in 1913 in the journal Sprechsaal. The article emphasizes the description of techiques for the manufacture of mould-pressed beads, secondarily describing methods for wound, blown and drawn-bead manufacturing.
Publisher Information
The Society of Bead Researchers is a non-profit scientific-educational corporation founded in 1981 to foster historical, archaeological, and material cultural research on beads and beadwork of all materials and periods, and to expedite the dissemination of the resultant knowledge. Membership is open to all persons involved in the study of beads, as well as those interested in keeping abreast of current trends in bead research.
Repository Citation
Ross, Lester A.
(1989).
"Bohemian Glass Beadmaking: Translation and Discussion of a 1913 German Technical Article."
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
1: 81-94. Available at:
https://surface.syr.edu/beads/vol1/iss1/8
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