Blue Chevron Trade Beads

Beads used in the African trade, the Russian fur trade and among Native American Indians for currency during the 1800s through the mid 1900s. Millefiori beads get their name from two Italian words, meaning thousand and Fiori meaning flowers. Millefiori style Murano glass beads are made from handmade glass canes, each containing an individual pattern of various designs and colours, from stars, to circles and flowers.

This necklace is line of lapis blue, six-layer chevron beads, the so-called aristocrat of beads.