{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-classic-6-layer-flower-pattern-more-set-of-2","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Classic 6 Layer Flower Pattern \u0026 More, Set of 2","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese beads are priced and sold as a set of 2 beads\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClassic 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.\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 late 1800s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educator\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53563976024373,"sku":"JSD-1222","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/JSD-1222Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789318429","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-classic-6-layer-flower-pattern-more-set-of-2","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}