Historical and handmade glass beads based on where they were found and glass designs

The story of the Hagedisenhain online shop

After I founded my company in 1999, I first started selling herbs and resins for smoking and semi-precious stone jewelry on the Internet. I programmed my first website myself, as well as the very first online shop. In the meantime, I prefer to trust the professionals in this field and dedicate myself entirely to my manual work.

When I was a guest for about a week in the museum village of Ribe (Denmark) for the first time around 2001, I made my first experiences at the glass bead forge. That was my first actual encounter with glass as a material. And that where I was born in the south of Thuringia and the glass was almost in the cradle. But only almost and so I probably had to take the detour via Denmark. My first self-made glass beads aroused the urge to learn more about this ancient craft. I researched and practiced on a simple hardware store gas burner. The color results were very unsatisfactory, which is why I soon switched to a two-gas burner. By supplying oxygen, the gas burns much cleaner and no impurities get into the glass, which could react with the metal oxides.

The cooling of the pearls and pieces of jewelry can build up tension in the glass, which leads to fine hairline cracks, which you may not see at first. But over time, the pearls could break. Based on this experience, I use a good, digitally controlled oven to temper the glass beads. With proper use of the pieces of glass (pearls, jewelry, figures) I can guarantee their longevity. For the processing of the glass beads into jewelry I mainly use 925 sterling silver or cotton ribbons.

The glass jewelry differs considerably from industrially produced mass-produced goods. Each glass bead has its own charm, its own colorful radiance.