{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-tabular-black-with-red-white-23x24mm","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Tabular Black with Red \u0026 White, 23x24mm","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack tabular bead with areas of brick red and white dots 23x24mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis bead had had a tough life and it shows with some of the surface nicks that don't look as dramatic as they do in the enlarged image. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis must be a rather desirable bead because similarly battered ones are going for much more, but I like to keep mine in line with what I paid, and their condition.\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\u003cli\u003eFrom the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educatro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53574621331765,"sku":"JSd-1318","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/JSD-1318Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789407989","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-tabular-black-with-red-white-23x24mm","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}