Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Collector/Designer Set of 3 Beads, Largest 27x14mm
SKU: JSD-310
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- Collector/designer set of 3 very interesting beads: The large bead in the center is an unusual mix of cased and bundled construction, while the two smaller beads are both made completely by the earlier "bundled cane" method.
- I also realize when looking closely at these beads that the olive color is was not part of the murrini or the core color of the bead. Rather it's clear that the murrini's outer edge was amber colored, which turned to olive as it melted into the black core in some places.
- One of the small beads has a chip at one end.
- Mix yellow and black paint and you'll see it turn olive green. That's a lesson from the color class I used to teach. Why is it important? Because you need to know that "olive green" for the purposes of color harmony, is not green, it's yellow :)
- Large bead 27x14mm, smaller ones 21x12mm
- 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
- From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educator