{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-elbow-green-chevrons-with-amber-red-46x12","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Elbow, Green Chevrons with Amber\/Red, 46x12","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClassic green chevron murrine with amber and gold centers adorn this large antique Venetian elbow trade bead. 46x12mm in outstanding condition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrade beads almost always have holes big enough for 2mm leather cords\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMillefiori, the Italian name for these colorful beads, means 1000 flowers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade in Venice, Italy for the African trade mid-1800 to late 1800s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53592506564917,"sku":"AFE-2282","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2282Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789487029","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-elbow-green-chevrons-with-amber-red-46x12","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}