{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-mini-bear-paw-design-on-white-sold-individually","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Mini Bear Paw Design on White, Sold Individually","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese beads are priced and sold individually\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTiny white beads with scattered slices of the classic \"bear paw\" design applied sparingly. The beads came from Africa, but similar ones traded to hunters and  trappers on the American frontier by the Hudson Bay Company, earned the bear paw or bear claw and remain popular today among mountain men \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll of these tiny beads are in pristine condition. They're 10x6mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe one bead with more blue was removed from this strand after shooting, but before adding the group to the website. All beads in this lot have the same pattern.\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 early 1900s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53556193165621,"sku":"AFE-2279","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2279Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789260214","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-mini-bear-paw-design-on-white-sold-individually","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}