Glass Beads from Europe

With Value Guide. By Sibylle Jargstorf. 191 pgs. Softcover.

Glass historian Sibylle Jargstorf provides an overview of Glass Beads starting in Antiquity and continuing to contemporary Beads and Beadwork.  She includes a chapter on the European Bead industry.  Her discussion of Bead Use focuses on Europe and Africa, though many of the beads were also brought to the Americas where Native Americans used them for their own craftwork.  Jargstorf provides a short Value Guide that includes a selection of the items she mentions in the book.

Nearly every glossy page features color or black & white photographs and drawings.

ISBN 9780887408397

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