{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-small-elbow-blue-white-with-red-yellow-30x10mm","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Small Elbow Blue \u0026 White with Red \u0026 Yellow, 30x10mm","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnother 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ok I admit it, I've been trying to describe these beads for too many hours straight. I'll take a break 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":53577420833077,"sku":"AFE-2276","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2276Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789423077","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-small-elbow-blue-white-with-red-yellow-30x10mm","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}