Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Classic Red/White/Blue Chevron Pattern, 37x10mm
SKU: AFE-1549
Sale price
$15.00
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Description
- Exquisitely detailed 6 layer red, white, and blue chevron murrini on 37x10mm bead, It's cut on the diagonal at both ends, but sadly it has a significant chip at one end, the price takes this into account.
- 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 bundling very thin glass tubes together to form the pattern, then fusing them, or encasing round or chevron pattern canes in concentric layers of different colored glass.
- The canes are sliced into murrini, which are laid out on a hot surface and 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- to late 1800s