When handcrafted, artisanal beads speak to your soul so loudly they’re practically shouting, you buy them. At least, your columnist does. The same likely is true for the many customers of Maui-based ...

WATERLOO – In lampworking, an oxygen-propane torch is used to melt and shape molten glass using simple tools and gravity. After three weeks in her first class in making lampwork beads, Rhonda Scott ...

They number Kirstie Allsop and Miriam Margolyes among their fans and have been admired in one of the world’s leading glass factories. Later this month, Jane Sherwood’s fabulous lampwork bead jewellery ...

For Lisa and Delbert Dowdy, their Wake Village home life is not typical. The family garage? It’s a workroom where they create their art. And for the Dowdys, their respective crafts are a hands-on love ...

Ellen Mead creates flowers, beads, and small jars, using the ancient art of lampwork. The history of manmade glass, according to the Corning Museum of Glass, is about 4,000 years old. The term ...

Nolly Gelsinger is a local Westminster glass artist who makes jewelry. When she was 9 years old, Gelsinger remembers drawing horses in the white pages of the telephone book because there was never ...