Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Teal & Green Chevron Canes w/ Red & Yellow, Set of 2
SKU: AFE-1935
Sale price
$12.00
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold as a set of 2
- Lovely teal and green chevron cane slices are separated by vibrant bands of red and yellow glass. Larger bead 27x10mm, smaller 18x10mm
- 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 in the early 1900s