It’s fair to say Bobbie O’Neale has had an eclectic career. After studying microbiology and public health at the University of California at Berkeley in the early ’60s, she worked as a public health ...

Baubles and beads • The road to her artwork and Stranded Glass started in 1998 when her son, Aaron, went off to college and her daughter, Marissa, started high school. “I had more than enough time on ...

The handmade production of blown glass beads into Christmas tree decorations in Poniklá, Czech Republic, earned the craft a place on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage last year. But ...

Elsie Chartier of Shelby Township likes to keep busy. The 91-year-old Australian-born crafter moved to the U.S. as a newlywed in 1944, and she enjoys spending much of her time crocheting and knitting ...

The handmade production of Christmas tree decorations from blown glass beads is a traditional practice connected with glass production in North Bohemia, where blown glass beads have been produced ...

As the jewelry factories of Providence began to shut down in the 1980s and 1990s, Debbie Goyette collected what she could. In 1996, she started an online business selling her findings. Encouraged by a ...