Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Small Elbow Blue & White with Red & Yellow, 30x10mm
SKU: AFE-2276
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$15.00
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Description
- Another mini elbow bead, this one features bright blue and white "eyes" fringed with the blue liner and red and yellow "lashes"30x10mm with a chip at one end.
- Ok I admit it, I've been trying to describe these beads for too many hours straight. I'll take a break now.
- 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-1800s