{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-rare-early-ambitious-bundled-cane-flower-stars-30x10mm","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Rare Early Ambitious Bundled Cane Flower\/Stars, 30x10mm","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA terrifically difficult design of multi-colored six-layer stars\/flowers build up with an astonishing number of micro-canes. 30x10mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe bead has a few barely visible chips at one end but the surface for this collector piece is pristine\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 to early 1900s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53564823961909,"sku":"AFE-931","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-931Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789325470","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-rare-early-ambitious-bundled-cane-flower-stars-30x10mm","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}