Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Brick & White Bullseyes with Yellow, Set of 4
SKU: AFE-2264
Sale price
$15.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 4
- Happy little family of 4 matched beads in different sizes: 25, 26, 28 and 33mm long by 12mm wide. All boast rows of white and brick concentric circles divided by bands of yellow glass.
- Sometimes I don't see the dirt until the images are blown up, but don't worry, it's easily removed with warm water, dishwashing liquid and an old toothbrush.
- 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