Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Set of 3 Small Beads with Complex & Rare Patterns
SKU: AFE-1258
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$15.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 3
- Antique milleifiori Venetian trade beads with complex and rare patterns, two with a bit of turquoise color. Sizes: 16x10 and 16x8mm
- Trade beads, even these small ones 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