Millefiori Venetian Trade Beads, Multi-Color, Multi-Pattern 16x12mm, Set of 5
SKU: AFE-1911
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 5 beads
- Collector set dozens of different murrine gathered onto these 5 beads.
- The glossy surface of these beads gives them away as newer beads possibly from the 1960s when antique millefiori trade beads were starting to come out of Africa.
- I suspect the murrine in these beads are slices cut from remnants of old mosaic canes leftover from the earlier production in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
- 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