Nice article on a shop called Kaleidokites and their One-of-a-kind Kaleidoscopes.

There’s an unrequited love behind every handmade kaleidoscope in Kaleidokites, a Eureka Springs shop.

The artists often use the same high-tech metals and glazings deployed by space shuttle engineers to create kaleidoscope patterns resembling fireworks and meteors on a night sky. Yet the toys are labor-intensive and, like any Old World craft, their worth relies on the artist’s hand and mood.

 

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