{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-small-collector-set-of-4-beads-with-red-more","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Small Collector Set of 4 Beads with Red \u0026 More","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese beads are priced and sold by the set of 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMini designer collector set of 4 unusual millefiori trade beads. Two are special because they have colored cores. One short cylinder has a very rare yellow core with red, yellow and green murrine. A short slice has a brick red core with white and red murrine. Very small 13x7mm cylinder with red, amber and black sun design. Finally a 15x9mm cylinder with red and amber sun murrine and a band of green around the center\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe other two are remarkable for their use of red in the murrine. \u003cbr\u003e\n\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 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade in Venice, Italy for the African trade mid-1800s to early 1900s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educator\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnly one available\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53535304745269,"sku":"AFE-2205","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2205Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789143647","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-small-collector-set-of-4-beads-with-red-more","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}