Clare Gaylard Glass 

Japanese Tonbo Dama are complex, layered glass beads used

for kanzashi and kimono ornaments. Tonbo-dama is

commonly taken to mean dragonfly-ball or dragonfly-eye. Typical

examples are subtle, complex and many layered. The aesthetic is

very different to that of Western Glass and enchantingly singular.

There's an obsessional quality and passion for detail that I find

fascinating. I've read it from cover to cover already, now I just

have to get the children off to school in a most un-maternal rush

so I can get to my workbench.