New Lampworking Studio

After long years of dreaming and endless hard work, we are elated to announce the installation of our new state of the art Lampworking studio. The ten-sided metal table fosters a wonderful interactive learning experience. And the ten-sided stainless steel ventilation hood is a work of art in itself, resembling a hovering spacecraft from another galaxy. Our new facility is open to students who would like to rent studio time. We provide all the equipment and tools needed and the student can store their glass or extra supplies here in the studio. The amazing world of glass is here in Indianapolis. At Boca Loca Beads, the perfect environment for creative learning is waiting to be discovered and explored.

2000 Year Old Glass

I was tempted to keep them all but I decided that they needed to be shared with the world. Imagine that 2000 years ago a person was sprinkling perfume on them from a glass bottle that was then buried for two millennia until it was found in shards. This glass was found in what is present day Afghanistan and brought to Boca Loca Beads from one of my old Afghani bead traders. The glass pieces have been fashioned into beads. They have a metallic quality that comes from being buried for so long, much like dicroic glass. Don't miss out on this treasure, it will never come again, or only if you bury some glass in the back yard and time travel back in 2000 years and dig it up.