{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-tabular-small-red-white-blue-18x14mm","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead, Tabular Small Red, White \u0026 Blue, 18x14mm","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAntique Venetian millefiori small tabular trade bead, 18x14mm diamond shape\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is a later cased cane version of the 7 little red, white and blue dots inside larger red, white and blue dots. The bead is in perfect 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-to late 1800s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53575736656181,"sku":"AFE-2140","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2140Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789413695","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead-tabular-small-red-white-blue-18x14mm","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}