Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Short Elbow with Chevron Pattern & Amber, 30x14mm
SKU: AFE-943
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$12.00
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Description
- Short segment of an elbow bead with one rough end, but with stunning chevron pattern mirrini in red, white and blue with amber core.
- Millefiori, the Italian name for these colorful beads, means 1000 flowers
- The beads are decorated with slices of glass canes created by, either bundling very thin glass tubes together to form the pattern and then fusing them, or encasing round, star or flower canes in concentric layers of different colored glass.
- To create the chevron pattern the amber core was dipped into a star shaped mold to create the chevron points, then subsequent layers of brick, white and blue color were added
- 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 to early 1900s