Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Olive Color with Combo Technique, 33x13mm
SKU: AFE-1011
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Description
- This olive color antique millefiori trade bead measures 33x13mm
- AFE-961 combined inner cased layers with an outer bundled stringers on the outside. This bead seems to start with tiny blue canes cased in white, either embedded in or bundled with brick red which fused around them, then cased in yellow and olive. Amazing and it's in flawless condition
- Trade beads almost always have holes big enough for 2mm leather cords
- Millefiori, the Italian name for these colorful beads, means 1000 flowers
- The beads are decorated with slices of glass canes created either, by bundling super thin glass rods together to form the pattern then fusing them, or encasing round or star pattern canes in concentric layers of different colored glass.
- The canes are sliced into murrini, which are laid out on a hot surface as the semi-molten glass cores of the beads are rolled over them, picking up the slices.
- Made in Venice, Italy for the African trade mid-1800s to early 1900s