Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Small Elbow w/ Flower Pattern, 37x10mm
SKU: AFE-965
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$15.00
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Description
- Unusual small diameter elbow millefiori, 37x10mm
- 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, by bundling super thin glass rods together to form the pattern then fusing them, or encasing round or star pattern canes in concentric layers of different colored glass.
- The canes are sliced into murrini, which are laid out on a hot surface as 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
- Only one available