Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Elbows, Amber, White & Black Set of 3
SKU: AFE-2284
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$18.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold as a set of 3 elbow beads, largest 35x13mm
- These beads have chips and in addition have been over-zealously cleaned, leaving them with a slightly rough surface. Despite this, the dramatic juxtaposition of the black and amber is a strong design element. I can see them with black and amber Venetian lampworked beads or just with black...
- 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