Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Rich Royal Blue with Amber & Brick, 34x12mm, Sold Individually
Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Rich Royal Blue with Amber & Brick, 34x12mm, Sold Individually
Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Rich Royal Blue with Amber & Brick, 34x12mm, Sold Individually

Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Rich Royal Blue with Amber & Brick, 34x12mm, Sold Individually

SKU: AFE-1845
Sale price $18.00

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Description

  • These beads are priced and sold individually
  • Antique Venetian trade beads of rich royal blue set off by a little white and complemented with amber and brick red. 34x12mm
  • Designers, grab these quickly to get multiple matching beads! Buy them all and you get the orange white heart spacers too :)
  • 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- to late 1800s