Green Venetian rosetta beads

Green rosette necklace –Venice– (origin: Koforidua, Ghana)

The rosettes, like the chevrons, are beads with four or more layers of colored glass that are obtained by stretching a glass sphere with a bubble inside generated by the master until forming a rod from which the murrines are obtained by fragmentation. As some of the layers have passed through a star-shaped mold, the ends of the cylindrical bead thus generated will present a characteristic pattern of concentric rosettes that gives the bead its name.

They originated in the Murano workshops and were desired by all those who had something to sell in Africa. For this reason, between the 15th and 20th centuries, millions of them landed in the ports of the Gulf of Guinea.

The necklace that we now offer consists of 245 beads made in Venice with a caliber of 6 mm, of which 31 are elongated (between 11 and 12 mm) and 214 are shorter (between 1 and 4 mm) and distributed according to a rhythmic pattern. Almost all of the beads (240) are four-layer green rosettes (the other five are small striped barrel beads).

Weight: 80g