Message in a Bead January 27, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. EST Visionary poet William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand, but a new exhibit at the Bead Museum offers the world in a tiny bead.

Perhaps a 200-year-old Berber necklace. Maybe a hand-painted wooden pigeon. “We’re just selling stuff,” says owner Cece Scriver, standing by a table laden with teetering stacks of mismatched ...