Jewelry maker Barb Tissier poses in her home studio in Waterloo. Her husband, Rick, equipped it with a propane torch, kiln, ventilation system and oxygen concentrator. Teri Maddox tmaddox@bnd.com ...

WATERLOO – In lampworking, an oxygen-propane torch is used to melt and shape molten glass using simple tools and gravity. After three weeks in her first class in making lampwork beads, Rhonda Scott ...

Almost an hour before The Bead & Button Show opened its doors to the public at the Midwest Airlines Center on a recent Saturday morning, women were pressing against the gate, just itching to shop–for ...

When Lark Books first approached glass artist Kimberley Adams about writing an instructional book on beadmaking, she wasn't ready. "Lark approached me seven years ago," Adams said, "but I didn't feel ...

Glass artist Robin Holt is unabashedly a dog person. She is an avid supporter of rescue animals, and her poodle, Finnegan, and two Malteses, Phoebe Trixie Bell and Griffin Hans Tyrion, serve as ...