Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Green & Blue w/ Black & Amber Stripes, Set of 4
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$15.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 4 beads
- Matched pair, perfect for earrings 17x9mm in cased and striped design of blue and green with brick accents amid bold amber and black tiger stripes
- Two additional small beads 9x7mm, one in the same design as the two larger ones and one in a complimentary patter without the amber.
- 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