| Bead & Button Magazine |
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| Bead & Button Magazine is a curious magazine dedicated to hand-crafted jewelry using beads and buttons. The magazine is not just for the casual collector but for anyone interested in artisan deeds, apparel design and anyone who wants to develop a new and different hobby. In order to review information about the company that distributes this publication or more of its products, please click here. The Vikings were good bead makers; in addition to their fame as explorers, navigators and warriors, Vikings had a rich artistic development and ability in a number of crafts. Making glass beads was one of them and they truly excelled at it. They started by importing or recycling little cubes or chunks of glass, and then formed them into beads. The most simple ones had only one colour, but they also produced complex drawings in various colours by forming glass rods of different types and then combining these to make complicated forms. Melting glass is not a complicated thing to do, and they did that all the time, acquiring significant skills at this craft.In Jutland, Denmark, for example, many different and highly elaborate glass beads were found. They mainly used colours like yellow, black, white, red and blue, perhaps because it was easier for them to produce glass rods in these variants. They also became masters of glass recycling; their simplest, cheapest beads were made out of adequately broken glass pieces that were polished into shape and drilled. Different archaeological sites explored at various stages show the whole process of bead fabrication, and tell us that it was quite a common art in Viking towns and houses. |
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