Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Green & White Stars with Red, Set of 2
SKU: AFE-2208
Sale price
$7.50
Shipping calculated at checkout
Only 1 in stock
Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 2
- 1 short barrels and one small tube in Red with green and white chevron star pattern murrine.
- 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 to early 1900s
- Only one available. For a larger set see JSD-407