{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Bead,","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDensely packed six layer chevron patterns surrounded by lime and navy waves are divided by bands of bright yellow and red glass indicating that this bead was among the last made for the African trade after World War I.  35x10mm\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 to early 1900s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53565740286261,"sku":"AFE-2173","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2173Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789330637","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-bead","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}