Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Set of 5 Green & Yellow Beads, Avg 11x12mm
SKU: JSD-275
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Description
- Matched set of 5 green and yellow antique Venetian millefiori beads. Diameters are 11-12mm and lengths 8 to 10mm. The lighter brighter yellow color indicates these were produced after 1918.
- 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 early 1900s
- From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educator