Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Small Blue, Green 7 White, 14x7mm, Sold Individually
SKU: AFE-2274
Sale price
$2.50
Shipping calculated at checkout
40 in stock
Description
- These beads are priced and sold individually
- Sweet, small, perfect cased murrine in blue, white, green and yellow grace these 14x7mm beads. Many are cut at a slight angle making them perfect for bracelets.
- 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 in the early 1900s