AFO
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 2
- Ever popular blue millefiori - these elbows consist of classic blue, brick and amber miurrini with blue stripes on the outside. They are one of my favorites.
- Elbows are 47mm long by 14mm diameter One has a small chip.
- Two flanking a large African amber or metal bead, make a stunning statement, or a single one can serve as a beautiful, and comfortable, focal in the center.
- 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 star 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
- From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and educator
- Only one set available.