{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-elbow","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Elbow,","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBright yellow stars in red circles glimmer in this elbow's dark blue sky, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt 42x12mm it's a substantial bead and though muted it's in good condition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI gave it bath in warm water and dish liquid and it does look a little brighter than the image now.\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-1800s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53577604202805,"sku":"AFE-2145","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2145Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789424166","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-elbow","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}