Very Dark Ruby Red, 14mm Fiorato Beads

Vintage, very dark ruby red, Murano Glass, 14 mm Round, Fiorato (Wedding Cake), Venetian Glass Beads.

These dark beads almost look black, until you look at them in the light.   

These old Fiorato beads are from the back rooms in Venice, Italy.

Minimum of 4 beads sold.

We are always searching the "back rooms" of our Italian bead makers in Venice and Murano.  Sometimes, we are able to find some of the old, vintage, Fiorato beads; occasionally referred to as "Wedding Cake" beads.

The beads were made one by one, under the flame, and are called "lamp worked beads".  

Fiorato beads have swirls of aventurina (copper filings), pink roses on one side, and blue and yellow "forget-me-not flowers" on the opposite side.