Millefiori glass jewelry

Millefiori is a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware.
The word "Millefiori" come from italian words, where "mille" means thousand and "fiori" means flowers.

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The term "millefiori" appeared in the Oxford Dictionary in 1849, and was used first by A. Pellatt in his book "Curiosities of Glass Making".
While the use of this technique long precedes the term millefiori, it is now frequently associated with Venetian glassware.
More recently, the millefiori technique has been applied to polymer clays and other materials.
Although what we now recognise as the Millefiori technique was developed in Murano, Italy in the 15th century, the heyday of Millefiori bead manufacture ranged from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.
The Millefiori technique is a labor intensive process.
Each Millefiori item is individually and painstakingly handmade.
Millefiori is a specific type of Murrini. Murrine are small cross cut sections of glass, often featuring a pattern or design, used in the creation of a larger glass work.

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