Short antique Venetian millefiori beads with floral murrine and a belt of red, white and blue. Each bead is 12x12mm
The colors indicate these were made after 1918.
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, by bundling super thin glass rods 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 as the semi-molten glass cores of the beads are rolled over them, picking up the slices.
Made in Venice, Italy for the African trade early 1900s
From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, write and educator
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