Italian for " 1000 flowers. " Decoration consisting of slices of multicolored glass rods (canes), usually pressed smooth (marvered), while hot into the surface of a core piece of glass.
Venetian term meaning "thousand flowers."
Literally, "thousand flowers". A type of Murrine consisting of a slice of a flower-shaped multicoloured cane, either fused together with others (see mosaic glass), picked up from the marver, or embedded in clear glass (as, for example, in paperweights)
Italian for "thousand flowers"; adescriptive term for paperweights incorporating any arrangement of millefiori canes
(Thousand Flowers) Small designs created in cane (cf) by arranging rods of color (and other rods with designs already made this way) bundled together, then heated and pulled to stretch and reduce the design. For millefiori, the cane is usually broken into short (1/8") pieces. Used in paperweights and for design details. See also, Murrini, Cane
often seen in paperweights, this technique uses coloured rods fused together and then cut up and enclosed in clear glass to produce patterns
Italian phrase for "a thousand flowers," the cross sections of molded glass rods of various sizes and colors used in paperweights.
refers to a process developed by Venetian Glass makers where several rods of glass are fused together in a pattern (often star or floral). Pieces of the resulting designed cane were then applied to the surface of another piece of glass or used in lengths crosswise exposing the design. This application literally translated from Italian means “Thousand Flowers”.
Literally translated, this means "a thousand flowers." It refers to a complex art glass technique in which artisans first form a shape such as a star or flower out of a cylinder of hot glass. Many layers of colored glass cover the shape, and the cylinder is stretched thin to form a long cane. Then the glass cane is sliced horizontally into thin pieces - murrine - to reveal the intricate patterns within each piece. Molten glass can now be rolled onto the murrine to create the distinctive mosaic surface pattern so valued by collectors.
An Italian term meaning "thousand flowers," in glass it refers to a design produced by combining small multicolored discs (or 'canes') of glass to form an overall design or to decorate the interior of a paperweight.
Italian for 1000 Flowers. The beads are slices of glass that contain a floral design. Millefiori refers to the pattern on the beads.
(mil-uh-fee-OHR-ee) An Italian term meaning a thousand ( mille) flowers ( fiori). Millefiori designs are achieved by cutting cross-sections from fused bundles of different colors of glass or clay.
(Italian, "1,000 flowers") See Mosaic glass.
Italian for “a thousand flowers”: a type of glass created in Renaissance Italy in which artists melted together long strands of brightly-colored glass into a rod, and cut the rod in thin slices and embedded it into glass.
from the Italian phrase for "a thousand flowers." Used to describe the composite glass cross-section used in most antique glass paperweights. (Refer to Chapter I for details on the manufacture of millefiori canes.)
Complex mosaic beads developed during the first millennium BC. Very colorful beads made by placing slices of millefiori cane on a molten base bead and heating until the cane colors run together then pressing into a round shape.
Italian for "a thousand flowers"; describes the flower-like composite glass cross sections used in many antique weights.
Millefiori ( thousand flowers) is the technique of stretching and shaping multi-coloured rods. Normally colours are added and a shape is introduced, then the molten glass is stretched until it produces a long thin cane of glass. This can be cut and used as beads or in the production of murrina paperweights, for example.
Millefiori (meaning "thousand flowers" in Italian) is glass that is formed from multiple canes of colored glass that are fused together and cut crosswise. Millefiori glass can also be made into beads.
The term millefiori originates from the Italian words "mille", thousand, and "fiori" flower. This term was not used until the 19th century, though this type of bead had been made many centuries before this. Millefiori actually refers to the pattern of the bead's surface that is an end result of a complicated bead making process. The components of a millefiori bead are murrine (millefiori slices) and a wound glass core, usually of a solid color. The murrine are created with glass rods, or canes, of various colors that are bundled into patterns and fused with heat. They are then reheated, drawn while hot, and sliced. The murrine slices are carefully marvered or pressed onto the molten core of a lampworked bead and fused again.
The Italian term, "thousand flowers," used to describe mosaic glass objects.
A term that means "a thousand flowers" in Italian and refers to an art form of fusing glass rods together and cross cutting them to get designs that depict numerous flowers. The process has become affordable enough at the present time to be used in making attractive costume jewelry.
"A thousand flowers" Lattimo glass decorated with murrine and often encased in a layer of clear or tinted glass. One of the oldest techniques that is still very popular today.
Glass or clay beads with imbedded floral designs. Millefiori means "a thousand flowers" in Italian.
italian "mille" (thousand) "fiori" (flower) - decorative glass made by cutting and arranging cross sections of fused glass rods of various colors and thicknesses. mortar
Means 'thousand flowers' in Italian. A glass-making technique whereby rods of glass of varying colours and lengths are fused together, then cut into pieces to display ornamental cross sections