Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Elbows Small Yellow and Green, Larger 35x10mm
SKU: AFE-2154
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$24.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 2
- What makes these distinctive is their unusually small size
- Small millefiori antique Venetian beads, elbow or banana shaped, 35x10mm and 30x8mm. The smaller one has lovely green chevron murrine with yellow bands
- Blue and red flowers (or stars) on a ribbon of green spiral around the larger yellow bead.
- 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 early 1900s