Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Rare Lime Color, Set of 2
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$12.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 2
- Antique Venetian millefiori trade beads with rare line green color, with bundled cane murrini in similar patterns. 19x10mm and 17x9mm
- 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-1800 to early 1900s