Millefiori Beads

Millefiori literally means 1000 flowers in Italian. Its is really a type of mosaic glasswork that is characterized by its flowerlike patterns. The patterns found inside the beads are produced by first heating a bundle of thin glass rods of different colors until the rods fuse together. The bundle is then pulled thin, cooled, and sliced. This produce small disks with flowerlike designs, which are then incorporated into various styles of beads.

Chevron bead

Chevron bead or Rosetta were created by glass bead makers in Venice and Murano, Italy near the end of the 14th Century.



These beads are made of a hollow cane and many layers of glass e.g. white, blue, white, brick red, white and finally blue. After this layering of color, these beads are ground to produce patterns resembling concentric stars with points. The canes are then chopped into individual beads. The Chevron bead is distinguished by zigzag patterns.