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Beautiful Millefori Teardrop Beads - Colourful!

 
Beautiful Millefori Teardrop Beads - Colourful!Quantity in Basket:none
Code: ga1800
Price:£3.99

Shipping Weight: 64.00 Grammes
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Price is per 15-inch strand of these beautiful beads - each measures 13mm x 12mm x 4mm. Picture shows side view to show inside.

Millefiori, translates from Italian to "thousand flowers". Each bead is handmade under the flame, using glass canes or rods. First glass rods are made like candy rock with multiple colors throughout. The colors at this stage are only viewable from the cut ends. The bead maker then cuts thin slices off while the glass is still hot and press them down to form mosaic patterns.

This labor intensive process attracted a high price for the beads. However today, the millefiori technique has been applied to polymer clays which are pliable and do not need to be heated and reheated in order to fuse. This makes it much easier to produce millefiori patterns than with glass. There are hundreds of thousands of different designs of Millefiori beads, making them great to collect. First glass rods are made like candy rock with multiple colors throughout. The colors at this stage are only viewable from the cut ends. The bead maker then cuts thin slices off while the glass is still hot and press them down to form mosaic patterns.

This labor intensive process attracted a high price for the beads. However today, the millefiori technique has been applied to polymer clays which are pliable and do not need to be heated and reheated in order to fuse. This makes it much easier to produce millefiori patterns than with glass. There are hundreds of thousands of different designs of Millefiori beads, making them great to collect.

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