An English translation of a German technical article on late 19th-and early 20th-century Bohemian glass bead manufacturing published in 1913 in the journal <i>Sprechsaal</i>. The author is unknown. The original German version and the English translation are presented side by side. Insertions of the translator and the current author are indicated. The article emphasizes techniques for the production of mold-pressed beads, but descriptions are also provided of the manufacture of wound, blown, and drawn beads. Mold-pressed beads may serve as temporal markers for dating archaeological sites; this article provides a historic context for the manufacture of such beads.