These beads are priced and sold by the set of 15 trade beads slices
This unusual two-tone bead looks almost like a jasper stone beads
Attractive colors that will go well with other African beads or stones
The holes in this type of trade bead are generally about 2mm
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
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