LITTLE ROCK — Tom and Sage Holland are passionate not only about bead making but the history that comes with it. "In a time of such fast change I see beads as an important stabilizing connection to ...

Beads are spilling across the country, into jewelry hobbyists' dens, artists' studios and craft store shelves. Jewelry artists, better known as beaders, are grabbing them up and creating works of art ...

Ribe was an important trading town in the Viking Age. At the beginning of the 8th century, a trading place was established on the north side of the river Ribe, to which traders and craftsmen flocked ...

The Viking Age bead makers were more advanced than previously believed. A new interdisciplinary study shows that around year 700 AD, craftsmen in Ribe, Denmark, used surprisingly sophisticated and ...