{"product_id":"millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-swirled-background-with-murrine-sold-individually","title":"Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Swirled Background with Murrine, Sold Individually","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThese beads are priced and sold individualy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShort barrels with swirled white and black background with red chevron type murruine seen most clearly on the the beads at about 5-6 o'clock and 7-8 o'clock in the image.\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":53536569393461,"sku":"AFE-2204","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/4388\/1301\/files\/AFE-2204Beadazzled.com.jpg?v=1789144750","url":"https:\/\/www.beadazzled.com\/products\/millefiori-antique-venetian-trade-beads-swirled-background-with-murrine-sold-individually","provider":"Beadazzled.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}