{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-rare-tq-blue-white-stripes-set-of-2","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Rare TQ, Blue \u0026 White Stripes, Set of 2","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese beads are priced and sold by the set of 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHere a central amber core is cased in brick red then surrounded by alternating blue, turquoise and white canes to create stripes in the mosaic slices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e30x11mm and 27x11mm both in good condition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTraces of dirt can easily be removed with warm water and dishwashing liquid\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":53564502278453,"sku":"AFE-1940","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-1940Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789323015","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-rare-tq-blue-white-stripes-set-of-2","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}