Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Rare Red Core, End-of-Day Beads, Set of 2
SKU: AFE-1159
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$15.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold as a set of 2
- Antique Venetian millefiori rare red core "end of day" beads
- Usually the cares are black or very dark blue, red glass was particularly expensive so it's rare to see red cores. End-of-day beads are covered with crumbs of murrine that are left over at the end of along day of millefiori making.
- 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, by bundling super thin glass rods together to form the pattern then fusing them, or encasing round or star pattern canes in concentric layers of different colored glass.
- The canes are sliced into murrini, which are laid out on a hot surface as 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