{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-elbows-red-white-w-flowers-35x12mm-sold-individually","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Elbows, Red \u0026 White w\/ Flowers, 35x12mm Sold Individually","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese beads are priced and sold individually\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAround a central band of multicolor flower murrine, these beads boast a checkerboard of unusual red and white. 35x12mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe two beads are identical, take one or both!\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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53576593178933,"sku":"AFE-2148","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2148Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789418510","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-elbows-red-white-w-flowers-35x12mm-sold-individually","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}