{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-end-of-day-with-red-short-cylinders-set-of-7","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, End of Day with Red, Short Cylinders, Set of 7","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese beads are priced and sold as a set of 7 beads\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA modernist mix of end-of-day glass chips interspersed with bright red glass bands. Red glass required gold in the mix, and was thus one of the most expensive and rare colors in antique Venetian glass beads, until the formula changed after World War I.\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 late 1800s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53563874640181,"sku":"AFE-1909","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-1909Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789314899","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-end-of-day-with-red-short-cylinders-set-of-7","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}