Flowers from beads

A large number of master classes with step by step photos will help to create a flower beaded by hand. Schemes weave suitable for beginners and experienced. Flowers from beads decorate your home or to be an unusual gift.

The appearance of the beads is inextricably linked with the emergence of glassmaking and belongs to the I millennium BC. e. In the Middle East, probably in Syria, there was glass blowing technique using a blowpipe (iron tube with a handle and mouthpiece). With the start of production of lightweight thin-walled hollow glass manufacturing small beads and immediately became one of the most important industries in glass. These materials quickly gained recognition and spread almost all over the world. Beads, glass beads, and products made of them got a place of honor in trade of export and import operations.

With the advent of the blowing method has changed and the process of making beads and beads. They were made not only from the thread, but also of hollow glass tubes, which blows from the drop of molten glass using a tube-Ponty.

Into the glass by adding various metals (copper, manganese, cobalt) in the east began to receive the glass of green, magenta and cyan colors.

After Egypt was conquered by the Romans, the production of glass beads and spread in the Roman Empire. In areas of the Mediterranean and in the areas adjacent to the Roman Empire, there was a series of glass workshops, which have become major centers for the production of valuable products from glass and household items (Syria, North Africa, Italy, France, the Alps, the Rhine region).