Topaz Coin 14mm Transparent Embossed Czech Glass Bead

These Czech glass round coin beads have a beautiful embossed surface which gives them a unique vintage feel. . Once you have discovered the quality, diversity and heritage of Czech glass beads you will want to use them in all your vintage and modern beading and embellishing projects!

DID YOU KNOW? Some facts about Czech glass beads...

1400s North Bohemia becomes a glass manufacturing centre.

1700s “Sample men” travelled globally from Africa to Tibet to trade glass beads.

1800s The Industrial Revolution! Machines allowed mass production of moulded pressed glass beads.

1928 Czechoslovakia was the largest bead exporter in the world.

1948 The Communist government nationalised the bead industry which became a single state run monopoly.

Penal labour was used at the core of bead making production and jewellery assembly in Communist Czeckoslovakia.



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