A Historic Look At Venetian Trade Beads

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Venetian Trade Beads have long held prestige as a collector’s item – valued for their survival of Centuries, and the colorful history that comes along with their creation and use in jewelry, bead bracelets and for trading.

Designs ranged from “watermelon” striped chevrons and Millefiori “thousand flower” beads, to elaborately fashioned lamp-work beads in the 19th Century, yet all had one purpose; commissions in which merchant boats traveling to Africa and Asia, proceeded to trade for valuable materialistic wares including palm oil, furs, exotic nuts and savory spices.

The development of Venetian Trade Beads can be traced as far back as the 12th Century Venice, Italy, when a really small guild operated from the Northern area of the city. The Glass-maker’s Guild produced a relatively early form of Chevron (Rosetta) beads comprising of 5-7 wound layers. These were used by early pioneers from the Americas and Africa, in exchange for goods and slaves to be taken back to mainland Europe.

During the early production years, Venetian Trade Beads were produced “on commission” for rich merchants, and were relatively simple in appearance. The main colors included red, white and blue, while green and yellow were rarer. Glass dyeing was typically unheard of, therefore metal ores were used to enhance color. Tin created creamy white, copper influenced green hues and rare gold made a rich russet-red. Cobalt was also used to create the moody indigo blues within these amazing “star beads”.

It was not until 1291 that most of Italian Trade Bead production was transported to the North-Venetian Island of Murano, among fears that the growing size of furnaces created a potentially harmful threat to the populous city. The booming fad of bead production continued in Murano well into the 16th and 17th Centuries.

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