Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Set of Three
SKU: JSD-425
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$15.00
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Description
- Mom was much more of a collector than designer so she didn't hesitate to save broken beads for what they told us about how they were made etc.
- Here is one perfect example of a rare yellow and lime bead with square cross section that combines transparent and translucent glass to reveal the depth of the murrini patterns 19x10mm
- In addition we have a sweet, but badly chipped bead with green chevron murrini 27x11mm and a chipped short cylinder similar to the first bead combining clear and light green glass with a red star to reveal the depth of the design. 12x12mm
- 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
- Only one available