D. Swarovski & Co.

Bernhard Hofer

Matthias Gander

Johannes Graf

Peter Messner

Thomas Brunner

Herbert Oefner

A string of beads with deformable connecting pieces which extend between each pair of adjacent beads and which are secured to the beads, wherein the connecting pieces are plastics threads or flexible wires.

String of beads

An apparatus is used to apply glass elements with a non-mirrored rear side to, in particular, a textile substrate. The predominant proportion of the glass elements is in the form of balls ( ). At least 5% of the glass elements comprise flat boundary surfaces, and the glass elements are applied to the front side ( ) of a foil ( ) to form a surface. At least a portion of the glass elements comprises balls ( ) provided with facets ( ).

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Telfes, Austria

Bernhard Hofer