Millefiori ( thousand flower ) beads from Venice, Italy were one of the most commonly traded beads, and are commonly known as " African trade beads . " They were produced by creating flowers or stripes from glass canes, that were then cut and moulded onto a core of solid color.
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Murano s glassmakers held a monopoly on high-quality glassmaking for centuries, developing or refining many technologies including optically clear glass, enameled glass ( smalto ), glass with threads of gold ( aventurine ), multicolored glass ( millefiori ), milk glass ( lattimo ), and imitation gemstones made of glass.
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While the leading expert, Rupert Bruce-Mitford, sees the bowls as the products of " Celtic " workshops, perhaps often in Ireland, in the same period the use of large areas of champlev?in the most ornate Celtic brooches reduces, though gem-like enamel highlights, some in " millefiori ", are still found.
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Techniques developed during this period include'slumping'viscous ( but not fully molten ) glass over a mould in order to form a dish and'millefiori'( meaning'thousand flowers') technique, where canes of multi-colored glass were sliced and the slices arranged together and fused in a mould to create a mosaic-like effect.
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Murano s glassmakers held a monopoly on quality glassmaking for centuries, developing or refining many technologies including crystalline glass, enameled glass ( " smalto " ), glass with threads of gold ( " aventurine " ), multicoloured glass ( " millefiori " ), milk glass ( " lattimo " ), and imitation gemstones made of glass.
