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Millefiories:
is Italian word for "1000 flowers." Decoration consisting of slices of multicolored glass rods (canes), usually pressed smooth while hot into the surface of a core piece of glass. Millefiories have been very popular collectors' beads for over 100 years - with thousands of different design and color variations.
Venetian Glass: Venice was the dominant force in glassmaking in volume, quality and diversity up until the 20th century, and bead making can be traced to the early 1300's. Common Venetian trade beads are "Millefiories", or "a thousand flowers", which are colorful mosaics of glass in floral patterns.
" African Trade Beads":
this term typically applies to beads made predominately in European countries from the late 1400s through to the early 1900s, beads traded in Africa, Americas and other counties.
This "trade" period was from the mid 1800s through the early 1900s; millions of these beads were produced and traded in Africa. The Europeans dominated the African bead market. All beads are from the collection of MBAD/ABA African Bead Museum
The Beads were re- introduced to the American market in the late 1960s, by young peace core volunteer returning from Africa.
Internet Gallery 3090
Millefiories:
is Italian word for "1000 flowers." Decoration consisting of slices of multicolored glass rods (canes), usually pressed smooth while hot into the surface of a core piece of glass. Millefiories have been very popular collectors' beads for over 100 years - with thousands of different design and color variations.
Venetian Glass: Venice was the dominant force in glassmaking in volume, quality and diversity up until the 20th century, and bead making can be traced to the early 1300's. Common Venetian trade beads are "Millefiories", or "a thousand flowers", which are colorful mosaics of glass in floral patterns.
" African Trade Beads":
this term typically applies to beads made predominately in European countries from the late 1400s through to the early 1900s, beads traded in Africa, Americas and other counties.
This "trade" period was from the mid 1800s through the early 1900s; millions of these beads were produced and traded in Africa. The Europeans dominated the African bead market. All beads are from the collection of MBAD/ABA African Bead Museum
The Beads were re- introduced to the American market in the late 1960s, by young peace core volunteer returning from Africa.