{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-set-of-4-small-beads-each-with-different-red-murrine","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Set of 4 Small Beads Each with Different Red Murrine","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese beads are priced and sold by the set of 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAntique Venetian millefiori 12x7mm blue and white with red stars, 15x8mm yellow and black with red stars, 14x11, red and white with amber and red stars, 17x10mm  a mix of 2 different murrine red stars and blue fowers.\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, 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 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.\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":53534389502261,"sku":"AFE-1584","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-1584.jpg?v=1789139543","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-set-of-4-small-beads-each-with-different-red-murrine","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}