{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-tabular-blue-6-layer-chevrons-6-pointed-stars-24x25mm","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Tabular, Blue 6 Layer Chevrons \u0026 6-pointed Stars, 24x25mm","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA beautiful, perfect, tabular millefiori antique Venetian trade bead, 24x25mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdorned with two rows of crisp 6 layer blue chevron canes and a less crisp row of six-pointed red \u0026amp; amber stars on white with amber and red \"flags\"\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- to late 1800s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53575234289973,"sku":"AFE-2139","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2139Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789411535","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-tabular-blue-6-layer-chevrons-6-pointed-stars-24x25mm","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}