When making solid multilayered cane intended to be used for decorating " millefiori " beads, no air bubble is inserted.
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More economically, millefiori beads can also be made by limiting the patterning process to long, narrow canes or rods known as murrine.
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Beads such as the kiffa beads of Mauritania are thought to have resulted from women creating powdered glass beads to mimic the appearance of millefiori beads.
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Archaeologist Murray McClellan describes a millefiori glass ball on display at the trigon, and it may have been the same game described in the Ursus inscription.
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Parallels with metalwork can be noted in the rectangular body of St Matthew, which looks like a millefiori decoration, and in details of the carpet pages.
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In the period 1846-1849 Baccarat signed some of their high quality glass millefiori paperweights with the letter B and the year date in a composite cane.
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The most recognizable weights are called millefiori ( thousand flowers ), decorative glass made by fusing glass rods of different shapes and colors that are then thinly sliced in cross sections.
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As the polymer clay is quite pliable and does not need to be heated and reheated to fuse it, it is a much easier medium in which to produce millefiori patterns than glass.
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The company liked the idea and decided to manufacture the canes and to have her write a how-to book for the product, titled " Friendly Clay Millefiori Cane ."
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A similar style, the marbrie, is a millefiori containing weight that has several bands of color close to the surface that descend from the apex in a looping pattern to the bottom of the weight.
