Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Collector/Designer Set of 5 Small Blue Beads
SKU: AFE-2216
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$9.50
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 5
- Collector/designer set of five, small blue antique Venetian millefiori trade beads in complementary, but different patterns.
- Center bead is square in cross section 16x15mm. The other beads in include variations on the blue and amber palette 12x7mm to 15x10mm
- 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