Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, White with Stars in Black, Amber & Brick, Set of 2
SKU: AFE-2273
Sale price
$15.00
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Out of stock
Description
- These beads are priced and sold in as set of 2
- There are two different but very complementary designs in these rare white beads
- They measure 17x10 and 17x11mm
- 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
- Only one set available