Bohemia/Dutch

Wedding beads, Glass Tanfouk, Dutch made glass Dogon beads, Russian Blues, Idar Oberstein Carnelian, Moon beads, 7 colors of Vaseline Beads.

Glass beadmaking was a strong export in Bohemia in the early 1500’s. “The beads were packed in bags and/or delivered in wooden barrels. From Nuremberg they were traded either to Amsterdam (for the African trade of the European merchants) or into “Turkey” (for the African trade of the Arab merchants).” Glass Beads from Europe, Sibylle Jarstorf