{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-collectible-set-of-4-different-beads-with-white-more","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Collectible Set of 4 Different Beads with White \u0026 More","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese beads are priced and sold as a set of 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree very early beads and one stunner mixing white and clear murrini with white stripes on a rare brown core. This one at lower left measures 13x11mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt top and bottom are two beads with swirled or striped backgrounds with a small scattering of star murrine \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the right is a very early uncolored glass core with a few star murrine applied\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":53556178583861,"sku":"AFE-2277","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2277Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789259274","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-collectible-set-of-4-different-beads-with-white-more","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}