Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Elbow, Black, White & Green Pie Murrine, 36x12mm
SKU: AFE-2291
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Description
- Antique Venetian elbow trade bead, unusual pie murrine in black, white and green, in a field of lime green, or is it yellow mixing with the black core? 36x12mm
- Not the prettiest beads I've ever seen but if you like the colors or are trying to gather every possible combo for your collection, this one might be for you.
- 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-1800s