Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Stunning Two Pattern Blend, Matched Set of 2
SKU: AFE-952
Sale price
$18.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 2 beads
- Two really classic designs share space on these beads: 7 layer multi-colored chevron pattern on one side with 7 layer cased design in blue, white & yellow on the other. Each 27x11mm, One has quite a large chip, but it does not go through the layer of murrine so does not affect the pattern, however the price is adjusted
- 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 to early 1900s