Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Classic 6 Layer Flower Pattern & More, Set of 2
SKU: JSD-1222
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$20.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold as a set of 2 beads
- Classic cased and molded 6 layer flower design entirely covers the smaller bead 20x10mm with rare brown core. The larger bead 32x12mm has red, white and blue stripes separating rows of the 6 layer, blue, white, amber and brick red flowers.
- 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 late 1800s
- From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educator