Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Amber, Brick & Blue, Designer Set of 7
SKU: AFE-2227
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$18.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by in a set of 7 beads.
- Collector/designer set of 7 beads coordinating patterns, all with rare brown cores and early bundled cane murrini, in rich amber, with brick, white and blue.
- Sizes range from 26x10mm to 12x7mm
- 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 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.
- The 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.
- Made in Venice, Italy for the African trade mid-1800s to early 1900s