I am beadmused after several eye-straining days of working with tiny bugles, rocailles, drops, size 11s and cubes that are fire-polished, silver-lined, aurora borealised or transparent in every ...

From the Roman empress Cleopatra to the celebrated actress Audrey Hepburn, beaded jewellery has always maintained its unvarying desirability. Anybody scavenging ancient history books would find that ...