"Fine" Lace Millefiori 21mm Discs

Mille-112-Lace
$8.15
"Fine" Lace Millefiori 21mm Discs
Product Details
Genuine Murano glass, 21mm "Lace" Millefiori disc, handmade in Murano, Italy.
No two beads are alike.  Each bead is handmade, lamp worked beads, made one by one under the flame and therefore, may have slight irregularities as with any hand made beads.

"Fine"  Lace Millefiori 21 mm discs, Murano glass beads. Each handmade bead is the finest Millefiori made in Murano; the beads are made by first melting, or lampworking, Murano glass onto the copper wire. Once the initial bead is formed, the artisan holds the bead in the flame and with tweezers, picks up small millefiori slices (also called murrinas), previously cut from millefiori canes, and places them directly on the heated center bead, covering the bead without leaving any space between each murrina. The Murano artisan then smooths and polishes the bead, obtaining the finest and highest quality beads that are envied by other bead makers. The complete making of these perfectly shiny beads is a secret, like many others in the workshops on the Murano island, and is jealously guarded in the family tradition. Therefore, we refer to these beads as "Fine" Millefiori.