Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Elbow in Green, Blue & Amber, 45x13mm
SKU: AFE-2285
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$29.00
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Description
- This garden blends a rare combo of blues, greens and sunny amber. It is made up of simple cased canes plunged into a corrugated mold during the next-to-last step to create the dancing amber petals on these glass flowers. 45x13mm
- This bead has a small chip at one end and another very small one near the middle
- 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-1800 to late 1800s