{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-superfine-design-in-subtle-blues-more-sold-individually","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Superfine Design in Subtle Blues \u0026 More, Sold Individually","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese beads are priced and sold individually. 28x12mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA subtle, but wonderfully complex design that looks like bundled canes, but is so crisply executed that it must somehow be a cased design. It's a mystery to me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe blues with small white dots remind me of an elegant pinstriped suit with the amber and brick red accents as the tie. Or maybe I've just been describing way too many beads in one day!\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\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Beadazzled.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53565643850037,"sku":"AFE-973","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-973Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789329672","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-superfine-design-in-subtle-blues-more-sold-individually","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}