Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Short Cylinders Blue w/ White, Amber & Brick, Sets of 10
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$24.00
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Description
- These beads are prices and sold in sets of 10 with the spacers
- One bead has been removed from one of the sets so that they are now both 10
- Classic blue, white, amber and brick short but thick millefiori cylinders about 11x15mm, many cut at a slight angle making them perfect for bracelets
- The spacers are highly desirable lampworked wound amber color discs similar to ancient Egyptian beads. They work very nicely with these beads but also with many styles of antique Venetian King beads.
- 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-1800s